Vitamin B1, or thiamine, supports normal cell function and helps your body convert food into energy. Thiamine overdose symptoms are unlikely to occur because this vitamin will be excreted in urine ...

Used for centuries in Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine, black sesame seeds (til) might be tiny, but they are mighty!

THE experiments of Heyroth and Loofbourow have established a close correlation between the physiological activity of concentrates of vitamin B 1 (after eliminating inactive purines and pyrimidines, ...

Chemists have confirmed a 67-year-old theory about vitamin B1 by stabilizing a reactive molecule in water—a feat long thought impossible. The discovery not only solves a biochemical mystery, but also ...

Casimir Funk, the Polish biochemist who coined the term “vitamins” for the vital class of molecules that help keep us alive, is the subject of today’s Google doodle. There have been theories of how ...

THE separation of vitamin B into two factors, antineuritic and antipellagrous, a few years ago, led to considerable attention being devoted to the properties of this vitamin, with the result that it ...

The chemopreventive effects of kolaviron, a natural antioxidant biflavonoid from the seeds of Garcinia kola, on aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-induced genotoxicity and hepatic oxidative damage was investigated ...

A pair of Idaho State University researchers are part of a group of more than 30 scientists who've found the culprit responsible for the death of newly hatched fish in an endangered salmon run. The ...