Color coded pathogens offer safer food formulation
New technology could soon make it cheap and easy to identify food pathogens by tagging them with color-coded probes made out of synthetic tree-shaped DNA.
Archives for June 14, 2005
Coffee prices to stay under pressure as world supplies fall
Expectations of a fall in global coffee supplies of coffee will keep up pressure on market prices, as fresh figures indicate world coffee production will drop in 2005/06.
Fish oils may harm some heart patients
A raft of clinical evidence has linked consumption of omega-3 fatty acids from fish oils to a reduced risk of sudden cardiac death, but a new study suggests that in some patients with life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms they may actually do more...
CAFTA squeezes through after sugar concession
The Central America Free Trade Agreement narrowly passed its first Congressional test yesterday, but only after concessions were made to the sugar industry writes Anthony Fletcher.
Scientists develop soy with better resistance
The first soybean line with genetic resistance to charcoal rot has been developed in order to better protect an industry under pressure.