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Europe: Barry Callebaut, partners craft yeast starter cultures to ferment cocoa
The Barry Callebaut Group and its partners have improved the process of cocoa fermentation.
Researchers from the company, VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and KU...
Americas: Researchers use light to improve food safety
A team of researchers applies the use of light and other technologies to better the world’s health care, food safety, and biosecurity systems.
Yong Chen...
Europe: Researchers develop cooling technique for ultracold gases as possible refrigerants
Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a cooling technique for mechanical quantum systems.
Using an ultracold atomic gas, the vibrations of a membrane...
Americas: Optimal maternal folate levels may reduce child obesity risk
Proper maternal folate levels during pregnancy may protect children from a future risk of obesity, especially those born to obese mothers, according to a...
Americas: Powdered cranberry combats colon cancer in mice, find researchers
Researchers fed cranberry extracts to mice with colon cancer and found that the tumors diminished in size and number.
They say identifying the therapeutic molecules...
Europe: NattoPharma gets grant for 4-year research work
The Norwegian Research Council has awarded a grant to NattoPharma to fund a four-year project to document the effects of calcium metabolism in the...
Americas: RBSC enters partnership on yeast research
Renaissance BioScience Corp. (RBSC) has entered into a partnership with Mitacs for a multi-year, US$1.44 million research and development project.
Mitacs, a national not-for-profit...
Europe: Researchers study coffee DNA for stronger beans
A global team of researchers have sequenced the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of the Robusta coffee bean that could lead to future developments to improve...
Asia Pacific: Wholegrains, resistant starch can counteract potential effects of red meat diet, say...
The total consumption of red meat in Australia has almost doubled since the 1960s, according to Flinders University.
As consumption increases so does the risk...
Europe: Institute ranks three foodborne diseases impacting Denmark
Campylobacter is the foodborne bacteria that contributes most to the burden of disease in Denmark, according to a study from the National Food Institute...