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New Zealand breeding program creates new red raspberry variety
A horticultural research team from New Zealand and Canada has introduced a new red raspberry cultivar. 'Moutere' is a new floricane fruiting red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) created in a planned breeding program at The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Limited (recently renamed The New Zealand Institute of Plant and Food... view more... (2009-02-27)
Study sheds light on squirrel psychology
The research team tested the squirrels' ability to learn to choose between two pots of food after watching another squirrel remove a nut from one of the pots. view more (2009-07-29)
Unilever Chairman Receives Science Society Accolade
Unilever Chairman, Niall FitzGerald, will be awarded with the SCI (Society of Chemical Industry) Centenary Medal on the 15th January. Guests from the industry will hear his speech Science in Action 150 Million Times a Day at dinner being held at the National Liberal Club in London. The award is given to acknowledge influential and prominent... view more... (2004-01-13)
Watching your weight? Beware of skinny friends with big appetites
Thin friends who eat a lot could put your waistline at risk, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, which examines how other peoples' weight and food choices influence how much we eat. view more (2009-09-22)
TV bombards children with commercials for high-fat and high-sugar foods
Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to foods and beverages and continuing questions about the role television plays in obesity. view more (2009-11-05)
Coffee Expert Celebrates His Own Golden Jubilee
Dr Ron Clarke, known internationally for his expertise in the coffee market, has been awarded a Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Distinguished Service Award for 50 years of continued and outstanding contributions to the Society. The award will be presented at a SCI Food Engineering Group celebratory dinner on 13 June 2002 held at SCI... view more... (2002-06-12)
Why eating less can help the environment
An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. Currently, this mostly comes from non-renewable energy sources which are in short supply. view more (2008-07-24)
EU Gives Green Light to Transnational Grants Project
The EU has given the go-ahead to a EUR1.6m pilot project aiming to develop a trans-European online grants information service after awarding EUR800,000 through the eContent programme to a partnership of UK, Spanish and Dutch grants service companies to help develop the project. By successfully accessing one of the many grant schemes that... view more... (2003-02-12)
Emotional Intelligence and the use of tobacco and cannabis
The term Emotional Intelligence could be defined as the capacity to perceive, comprehend and regulate one's own emotions and those of others so as to be able to distinguish between emotions and use this information as a guide for one's thoughts and actions. view more (2007-11-02)
Anaesthesia guidance system can reduce awareness during surgery (p 1747, 1757)
An Australian study in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlights how the neuromonitoring of brain patterns of patients during surgery could help guide the use of anaesthesia and reduce the risk of patients becoming aware during surgery-thought to occur in around 0"¢1-0"¢2% of patients. Bispectral index (BIS) monitoring measures the... view more... (2004-05-26)
Guide on lung cancer in 'never-smokers': A different disease and different treatments
A committee of scientists led by Johns Hopkins investigators has published a new guide to the biology, diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in never-smokers, fortifying measures for what physicians have long known is a very different disease than in smokers. view more (2009-09-17)
A low-cholesterol diet leaves a bitter taste in the gut
One role for the proteins on the tongue that sense bitter tasting substances, type 2 taste receptors (T2Rs), is to limit ingestion of these substances, as a large number of natural bitter compounds are known to be toxic. view more (2008-10-10)
Packaging film as a sterile zone
No one wants food that has gone mouldy - least of all when they have only just purchased the product. But consumers are not exactly wild about food preservatives either. Packaging researchers are now introducing coated films to fight the battle of the bacteria. view more (2004-10-25)
Brown Expert Offers Guide to End-of-Life Care
Years ago, dying patients in most communities often had a single option if they needed hospice care. Now they have many more; competition reigns. view more (2009-02-11)
Szechuan pepper puts prairie voles off their food
Szechuan pepper can be used to deter crop-destroying mammals such as the prairie vole, without affecting non-targeted species, says research published in the journal Pest Management Science. Researchers discovered that compounds in the pepper probably repel prairie voles by stimulating pain receptors in the nose, mouth and eyes. The component... view more... (2004-04-05)
It takes two to fight cancer
New research at the Institute of Food Research shows that two food components recognised for their ability to fight cancer are up to 13 times more powerful when put to work together. The results are published in the latest issue of international journal Carcinogenesis. The study focuses on genes that play an important role in tumour formation,... view more... (2003-03-31)
Food source threatened by carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide increasing in the atmosphere may affect the microbial life in the sea, which could have an impact on a major food source, warned Dr Ian Joint at a Science Media Centre press briefing today. view more (2007-12-11)
Pictures of hot fudge sundaes arouse: Understanding emotions improves our food choices
Menus and advertising affect our emotions, and if we understand those emotions, we make better food choices, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. view more (2008-09-16)
Blue Tit Mother Learns When To Lay Her Eggs
Blue tits can learn from their past nesting experiences. They adjust the timing of laying eggs to their experience with the availability of food in the previous year. Today, 5 April, the research results of three biologists of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) are published in Science. Crucial to the survival of blue tit chicks are... view more... (2002-04-05)
Food or its expectation sparks brain's hunger centers
The concept of whetting the appetite by serving hors d'oeuvres before a meal may have a solid scientific basis. view more (2006-10-04)
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