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We’ll drink to that

June 3, 2019
Dr Leonardo Chiappisi and Dr Isabelle Grillo are fascinated with the popular Italian liquor limoncello and its distinct milky appearance. But how, exactly, could this help them develop speciality chemicals?...

An edit for good?

April 9, 2019
Gene editing could allow incredible crop improvements, with the potential to reduce the harmful impact of agrochemicals on biodiversity while boosting yield. However, the recent European Court of Justice ruling...

Down on the farm

February 28, 2019
The complex balance of species which live in and around farmland are vulnerable to climate change – but we really know very little about how farm biodiversity interacts. Here Darren...

Fast food

February 7, 2019
Speed breeding isn't a new concept but it could be crucial to ramping up food production in Europe in the light of recent rulings on gene editing… Regardless of where...

The fat of the land

October 19, 2018
Evidence for environmental chemicals as disruptors of metabolism is mounting ­– now a new study suggests a worrying link between fracking and the growth of fat cells. Dr Christopher Kassotis...

Food for thought

September 11, 2018
Bacteriophages are well known to molecular and microbiology, but could they really be a new vanguard against foodborne pathogens? Phage expert Professor Mikael Skurnik thinks so…Given the continuing problem of...

Getting the right exposure

September 6, 2018
Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do to our health. That is the ambition of exposomics and it is an incredibly tough undertaking...

An aquatic approach to space food

July 23, 2018
Just how do you haul enough food into space on extended manned missions without burning through vital fuel? The answer, says biologist Dr Miriam Knee, all comes down to zooplankton…The...

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