IFR is exploring epigenetic changes in cells that line the human gut, which are linked to our vulnerability to developing cancer. Here, Professor Ian Johnson comments on DNA methylation, and on a new study from Nigel Belshaw’s group which suggests that prolonged exposure to increased, supra-nutritional doses of folic acid may cause these epigenetic changes [...]
IFR in the City Lecture ‘Food for a leaner future’
During National Science and Engineering Week, Dr Susan Jebb, Head of Diet and Population Health at the Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research Unit (HNR) gave the annual IFR in the City Lecture. Her talk, ‘Food for a leaner future’ touched on the science underpinning nutrition, from basic fundamental aspects through to social sciences, but focussed [...]
UK-Vietnam Workshop on Biofuels
Professor Keith Waldron has attended a UK-Vietnam Workshop on Biofuels, sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the British Embassy. Vietnam is a centre of rice growing and production, and the waste rice straw from this could represent a significant source of biofuels. To help in exploiting this, BBSRC set up [...]
Conference poster prize for Toxoplasma gondii work
PhD student Caroline Weight recently won a prize for a poster that she presented at an international conference on aspects of tight junctions, which are specialised connections between adjacent epithelial cells. Her poster outlined some of the major findings from her PhD on how the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii targets tight junctions and occludin protein [...]
Exposure to stomach acid primes Campylobacter for intestinal infection
Campylobacter is a major cause of foodborne gastroenteritis, with an estimated 500,000 infections annually in the UK. The most common infection route is on undercooked poultry meat, and then crossing the lining of the small intestine. To do this, the bacteria must survive the highly acidic conditions in the stomach, and then find a way [...]
Beneforte broccoli finalist in national innovation competition
Professor Richard Mithen of the Institute of Food Research was a finalist in the BBSRC Innovator of the Year Awards for the development of Beneforte broccoli, a consumer product from UK plant research. The new broccoli variety contains higher levels of a key phytonutrient thanks to Prof. Mithen and colleagues’ research on both the biology [...]
How food researchers do what we do
Many diseases are preventable and diet can play an important part in preventing them. Providing dietary advice that can help people live longer and reduce the burden on the NHS requires accurate and specific information. Professor Richard Mithen and Dr Maria Traka have published a review in The Plant Cell journal of the different ways [...]
IFR at the Big Bang Fair
By Mark Fernandes, IFR Research Scientist. Big Bang is THE major event for science engagement with schools. This year, the IFR stand’s theme was “food for sport” which has a multiplicity of links to IFR science. For example, I managed to work in the gut bacterial population as part of basal metabolic rate and other [...]
Science in Norwich Day
Norwich’s scientists will be taking over The Forum on Saturday for Science in Norwich Day, the annual showcase of the exciting science exploding out of Norwich. Scientists from Norwich’s world leading institutes on the Norwich Research Park, as well as local and national organisations, will be covering everything under the sun, and even on it. [...]
EU project to harmonise total diet studies for risk assessment and health monitoring
IFR is contributing to a new EU project, TDS-Exposure, that is aiming to improve and standardise the monitoring of our exposure to contaminants and other food components in our diet. These will be based on Total Diet Studies, which assess the contamination of food in the diet as a whole, rather than of raw ingredients, and [...]
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Epigenetics, folates and the human gut
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IFR in the City Lecture ‘Food for a leaner future’
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UK-Vietnam Workshop on Biofuels
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Conference poster prize for Toxoplasma gondii work
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Exposure to stomach acid primes Campylobacter for intestinal infection
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Investment in bioscience skills and training to help meet economic and social challenges
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Beneforte broccoli finalist in national innovation competition
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Understanding how bacteria come back from the dead
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UK-Vietnam Workshop on Biofuels
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How food researchers do what we do
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