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Partnership to conduct applied research in the use of PDCs activated by proprietary laser technology to destroy microbial pathogens associated with food contamination.

Agreement aims to develop microarrays for the prevention of diet-related diseases.

The University of California, Davis, and BGI, the world's largest genome sequencing institute, agreed today (June 8) to form a partnership to conduct large-scale genome sequencing and functional genomics programs, focusing initially on the areas of food security; human and animal health and wellness; and biodiversity and environmental health

n a lawsuit over genetically modified (GM) modified rice, jury members in an Arkansas circuit court ruled in March in favor of Riceland Foods of Stuttgart, Arkansas, a rice milling and exporting company, and against Bayer CropScience of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Monheim, Germany.

Bruker marks another milestone in its nearly 40 year history in China, with the opening of a major applications, training and service center in Shanghai.

For European organic marketers, politicians, activists and consumers, the irony is bitterer than fresh-picked radicchio. The technology that affords the best method of safeguarding the food supply is the one they’ve fought hardest to forestall and confound.

In this paper researchers suggest that geographic profiling could form a useful component of integrated control strategies relating to a wide variety of infectious diseases.

Lumora has secured £1.5 million from the completion of the company’s latest funding round, led by Catapult Venture Managers Ltd.

The acquisition of Labtronics follows the recent purchase of informatics companies CambridgeSoft and ArtusLabs by PerkinElmer, both announced in March.

New research for this year’s Food Safety Week reveals that two thirds of consumers in Northern Ireland have not heard of campylobacter, Northern Ireland’s most common form of food poisoning bacteria.