These popular beverages often have many other ingredients, like vitamins and plant extracts. Here’s what you should know about them.

Meet the Dodder. It moves amongst the young nettles, sucking sap from their stems. The Dodder is a hunter with an exceptional sense of smell. It moves swiftly, searching for its prey. Smelling a young ...

Background Field dodder is a parasitic plant that has long been a concern in agriculture and natural ecosystems and a difficult plant to control. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the ...

A plant used in Brazilian medicine has scientific potential to help people with arthritis and other inflammatory conditions. Researchers tested Joseph’s Coat (Alternanthera littoralis) in lab studies ...

A serum designed to reverse hair loss has shown promising results in less than two months. Based on plant extracts and cell-stimulating proteins, the topical treatment led to visible improvements in ...

There’s a lot to consider when choosing what type of vanilla to buy: Should you go with vanilla paste, powder, or extract—maybe even a whole bean, or the lesser-known ground vanilla? Madagascar, ...

Dodder is an obligate parasite of certain plants. This unusual member of the morning glory family is also known as “Angel’s Hair” and “Strangle Weed.” Like Indian pipe, another parasitic plant, Dodder ...

Prof Richard Mibey, of the University of Nairobi, displays a shirt and a hat dyed using a Japanese dodder extract during the National Research Festival at Egerton University in Nakuru County on August ...

Have you seen that orange thread-like stuff draped over the top of plants in a salt marsh? It’s a parasitic annual plant called dodder, Cuscuta species. Dodder is capable of photosynthesis, but it ...

"The investigational product used in the study is an option for healthcare providers and researchers working on novel pain relief products," the authors wrote. The authors excluded the evaluation of ...

WASHINGTON — The parasitic dodder plant, or strangleweed, doesn't have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey. The dodder attacks such plants as tomatoes, carrots, onions, citrus trees, ...

CHEBOYGAN – When Jenna Dodder’s at the plate, she doesn’t mind seeing a lot of people watching her. She’s not really looking to impress, but when all eyes are on her, it gives her all the confidence ...