DEAR DR. ROACH: In a recent column, you stated that the body works to keep blood pH levels steady. My urologist has recommended that I drink baking soda in water to alkalinize my urine. Is it true ...

A viral social media video promoted using urine as an eye wash, alarming medical experts. Doctors caution that this practice ...

The key to this breakthrough is a synthetic yeast nicknamed “osteoyeast.” Inspired by mammalian bone cells called osteoblasts ...

Scientists have created synthetic yeast that converts human urine into a valuable bone implant material, while also reducing ...

A research team including a materials scientist at the University of California, Irvine has engineered a yeast ...

Discover how blood and urine tests reveal junk food consumption through biomarkers in a new study, offering insights into ultraprocessed food's impact on health.

New research reveals that blood and urine tests can determine the amount of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) one consumes. The findings were published in the journal PLOS Medicine. Large-scale studies ...

Around 59 kg CO₂-eq per cubic meter of treated urine, versus 40 kg CO₂-eq for synthetic nitrogen … not quite a full environmental payback. But here’s where things get interesting: scale the system up, ...

Since urine is made of water, electrolytes and waste products, slight changes in those balances can affect your urine pH and make it more basic, or higher in alkaline, which may cause a cloudy or ...

The cats remained in metabolic cages for an adaptation period of seven days, followed by six days of urine total collection, with volume, density, pH and calcium concentration (g/d) measurements. The ...

Daily urine (first-morning sample) and fecal samples (first bowel movement) were collected. Fecal water content, a proxy marker of transit time and stool moisture, was assessed for all samples.