Food & Bev

News

Aston AIME celebrates launch with collaborative science

The new Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence has hosted its official academic launch at Aston University with more than 100 leading biology, chemistry, physics and engineering academics and intern…

In Depth

Food forensics: how AI can smell authentic olive oil

Extra virgin olive (EVO) oils are highly complex. Here, Prof Chiara Cordero discusses the application of an AI smelling machine to analyse, qualify, categorise, and authenticate olive oil and counter…

Comment And Analysis

Translating food safety from the laboratory to the factory floor

Advances in the science of food safety might begin with the laboratory but much of the pressures for improvement and greater efficiencies derive from industry and consumers.

Interviews

Science in the round

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) remains one of Europe’s largest multidisciplinary research bodies, with a vast network of facilities. Laboratory News interviewed Dr Ludmilla Mee

Focal Point

Pork tapeworm

This coloured scanning electron micrograph of the head of a pork tapeworm – Taenia solium – shows the hooks it uses to cling to its host.