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Fast food

February 7, 2019
Feature
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...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Bev, Food and Drink, In Depth, Policy
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The fat of the land

October 19, 2018
Feature
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...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Food & Bev, Food and Drink, In Depth
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Food for thought

September 11, 2018
Insight
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...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Bev, Food and Drink, Interviews
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Getting the right exposure

September 6, 2018
Insight
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...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environment, Food & Bev, Food and Drink, Geology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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An aquatic approach to space food

July 23, 2018
Insight
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...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Bev, Food and Drink, Interviews
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Toxic shock!

June 21, 2018
Feature
When a species other than c.botulinum was found producing its famous toxin – only the second report of a new botulinum toxin to be found in the past 40 years...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Food & Bev, Food and Drink, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Chef de science

May 4, 2016
Insight
Professor Peter Barnham speaks on the science of molecular gastronomy.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemistry, Food & Bev, Food and Drink, Interviews
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Pork tapeworm

December 1, 2015
Insight
This coloured scanning electron micrograph of the head of a pork tapeworm – Taenia solium – shows the hooks it uses to cling to its host.
Earth & Environmental
Focal Point, Food & Bev, Food and Drink
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Time to put a bug in the system?

July 8, 2015
Insight
Population growth is set to place an incredible demand on food production – could it be met with the use of insects as an alternative food source? Here Gemma Lamb...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Bev, Food and Drink, Interviews
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Guiliana Noratto says eat three peaches a day

June 9, 2014
Insight
Washington State University food scientist Guiliana Noratto has found that compounds in peaches can inhibit the growth of breast cancer cells and their ability to spread. Here we learn more...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Bev, Food and Drink, Interviews
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