I remember first learning about folic acid maybe 15 years ago in school. Unless you were a chemist "folic acid" and "folate" were pretty much interchangeable words – except that folate was the form of ...

Folic acid, also known as vitamin B9, is a form of vitamin B that helps your body make and maintain new cells. It's essential for everyone, but especially important for people who could become ...

When Martha Field became pregnant in 2005, a singular fear weighed on her mind. Not long before, as a Cornell University graduate student researching how genes and nutrients interact to cause disease, ...

The role of depth of response and single-nucleotide polymorphisms as a prediction of the efficacy for third line chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

Every human body has the gene 5-methyltetrahydrofolate. It’s also known as MTHFR. MTHFR is responsible for the breakdown of folic acid, which creates folate. Some health conditions and disorders can ...

Navigating pregnancy and early parenting advice can be overwhelming — and for many parents, the confusion begins in the supplement aisle. One of the first things women planning a pregnancy or in the ...