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Making tough choices digestible

Added: 16 Dec 2024

“To eat is to compete in an arms race,” says Dr Chris van Tulleken, whose thoughts on evangelising …

Translating food safety from the laboratory to the factory floor

Added: 17 Nov 2024

Advances in the science of food safety might begin with the laboratory but much of the pressures fo…

Farm to gutter: Genomic surveillance to track AMR

Added: 4 Mar 2024

Governments are waking up to the dangers presented by antimicrobial resistance but the focus on cli…

The root of it

Added: 2 Oct 2023

Seaweed is an intrinsic part of our existence on this planet and it could just be the very thing th…

Sustainably feeding the world with genomics-driven agriculture

Added: 5 Mar 2023

As cell meat manufacture develops in the lab, science is increasingly impacting arable farming in t…

From petri dish to dinner plate

Added: 27 Feb 2023

Lab grown meat is developing into a multibillion pound industry but scaling up has challenges, expl…

How food microbiology contract labs can drive sustainable impact

Added: 19 Jun 2022

Safe and trusted food is essential for the food industry to prosper — especially in today’s landsca…

Improving contract lab efficiency and productivity through automation

Added: 29 Apr 2022

As demand for outsourced microbiological testing to assure the food value chain increases, contract…

Making an impact in remote laboratory research

Added: 16 Feb 2022

During Lab Innovations last November, Anna Cooper and Raymond Wong were delighted to pick up the ‘M…

How food and drink labs have adapted since COVID-19

Added: 27 Oct 2021

With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the mass stock-piling of food products like chicken…

Wheat field trial heralds UK acceptance of gene edited crops

Added: 13 Oct 2021

Post Brexit, the UK is free to make its own decisions around genetic editing of food crops based on…

How to make Christmas cake with ingredients from lab supply companies

Added: 23 Dec 2019

So, it is the festive period once again and you are trapped in the lab – but fear not, Dr Matthew P…