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Should we curb our appetite for beef?
In 2012, Nobel Prize winner Harald zur Hausen noted the volume of research suggesting a causal link between beef consumption and colorectal cancer. This disease predominantly occurs in high-income...
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Antibiotic resistance transfer: where’s the culprit?
Escherichia coli is a species of bacteria that forms an essential part of the gut microbiome of many warm-blooded animals, including humans. Most strains are completely harmless to us, but some cause...
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What gives wine its taste? (We heard it’s on the grapevine…)
Wine connoisseurs, or oenophiles, possess a seemingly endless vocabulary for describing their tipples of choice. To the uninitiated, it may sound like they are describing an entire gourmet meal, or...
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Profile: Dr Marie Anne Chattaway
Society member Dr Marie Anne Chattaway works as a Clinical Scientific Lead for Public Health England (PHE), based in London, UK. We spoke to Marie about her career, her work for PHE and how working...
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Microbe Talk: December 2015
In a festive edition of our podcast, we hear from Dr Arnoud van Vliet from the Institute of Food Research. Arnoud tells us about his group’s research into foodborne pathogens like Campylobacter, and...
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Microbial diversity and ‘unique’ cheeses
Traditional cheese-making with raw milk utilises bacteria from the local environment. Today at the Annual Conference, Bronwen Percival, Technical Manager at London-based Neal’s Yard Dairy, will explain...
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Microbe Talk: Brewing Better Beer
What gives beer its taste? Why do some ales taste of berries, bananas or chocolate? A big part of the answer is the type of yeast used to ferment it. There are hundreds of different strains that...
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You can’t stop an outbreak without breaking a few eggs
Last year, a paper from Microbial Genomics described how scientists used molecular detective work to get to the bottom of an outbreak across Europe. In June 2014, there was an outbreak of Salmonella at...
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Scratching the surface: how microbes adhere to worktops
Caleb Kimbrough/Flickr Have you ever noticed when cleaning a sink or a saucepan that certain spots get tougher to clean over time, and the harder you scrub them, the worse it gets? This sometimes...
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Could the gut microbiome influence livestock growth?
Dr Stafford Vigors is a researcher at Teagasc, a Food Research Centre in Ashtown, Dublin. At the 2018 Microbes and Mucosal Surfaces Focused Meeting, Stafford presented his research ‘Analysis of the...
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