The food is more commonly found in powdered form or as a supplement and has a bunch of compounds that are good for heart health.

Most prominent are Aoi Fujiwara as the sweetly bookish Princess Violet, who has a true soulmate in the Duke of Purpureus (Jack Wolff); Tyler Donatelli as the high-energy Princess Heather ...

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small and limber tree climbers to lumbering bear-sized landlubbers. Why sloth body size was once so ...

The team looked at neutralizing herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2) and influenza A strains (H1N1 and H3N2) through a clinically loaded chewing gum made with lablab beans (Lablab purpureus).

Red Yeast Rice is a fermented rice product created by culturing white rice with the mold Monascus purpureus. It has been used for centuries in China. Recently, it has been marketed as a supplement ...

The clinical-grade chewy is made from lablab bean powder, ground from the seeds of the Lablab purpureus species, which contain a natural viral trap protein called FRIL. In experiments using a ...

“Controlling transmission of viruses continues to be a major global challenge,” said Daniell in a recent statement. “A broad spectrum antiviral protein (FRIL) present in a natural food product (bean ...

Laura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial College London. A few years ago, at the height of the pandemic, Daniell and ...

Lablab purpureus-- that naturally contain an antiviral trap protein (FRIL) -- to neutralize two herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2) and two influenza A strains (H1N1 and H3N2). The chewing ...

Image by Piekfrosch via WIkimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0). One of the captive-bred juvenile spotted softshell turtles (Pelodiscus variegatus) photographed upon its the release into the wild in ...

Green manures help improve soil health at any time of the year. Typically the process involves planting quick-growing legumes and grains that are dug back into the soil to add nutrients and ...