In May, as part of a £250 Million strategic investment in UK bioscience, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council announced funding for 14 key national capabilities, three of which are located at the Institute of Food Research. Two of these are databases collating information on food composition (Food Databanks) and predictive microbiology (ComBase), and the other [...]
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Night at the museum for IFR scientists
Combase, the predictive microbiology database co-ordinated by IFR, was recently showcased to a public audience at the Natural History Museum in London, at an event designed to let people get hands-on with cutting edge science and meet the people behind it. ‘Science Uncovered’ at the Natural History Museum was part of European Researcher’s Night, which [...]
Modelling salmonella growth to produce safer pork
Salmonella infections are among the most common bacterial causes of food-borne gastroenteritis in humans, with a number of different potential sources including meat, eggs, and fresh produce. In the EU, up to 20% of human salmonellosis cases are thought to be due to consumption of contaminated pork products. Most EU countries have established programmes to [...]
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Follow the journey food takes through our body
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Mining the botulinum genome
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Benchtop NMR breakthrough
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The First UK-Ireland Food Business Innovation Summit
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Contact killing of Salmonella Typhimurium by human faecal bacteria
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IFR scientists use the force to decode secrets of our gut
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Contact killing of Salmonella Typhimurium by human faecal bacteria
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Commercial future for Model Gut
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Poultry probiotic cuts its coat to beat bad bacteria
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Reliably higher levels of healthy compound in Beneforté broccoli
- GHFS scientists discover that probiotic bacteria in poultry have the ability to alter their coat | Gut Health and Food Safety Blog: [...] Now, in research published in the journal PL...
- Le contact mortel de Salmonella avec des bactéries fécales humaines - Le Blog d'Albert Amgar - Un article de Le Blog d'Albert Amgar: [...] « Le contact mortel de Salmonella...
- N4SA.com | Contact killing of Salmonella by human fecal bacteria: [...] above story is reprinted from materials prov...
- New technique to help ‘read’ information in the gut | NEWWorthy – our blog "The New": [...] the category of old can be NEWWorthy - Ato...
- Super broc performs to expectations in field trials | QFOOD: [...] Read the press release on the Institute of F...
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