FEM2-Ambiente has developed a DNA barcoding tool for food companies to verify ingredients and trace contaminants in both raw and processed foods. Biotech company FEM2 (Food, Environment, ...

Nearly seven years ago a DNA test triggered the UK’s most notorious food scandal. It was late 2012 and Irish food safety officials had niggling suspicions about the meat in supermarket freezers. A ...

A Northwestern Engineering synthetic biology research team has developed a method to selectively drive the fusion of lipid nanoparticles — an emerging carrier for therapeutics — resulting in protein ...

Advances in sequencing technologies have accelerated the discovery of the genetic causation of diseases and new cell types. This revolution has also given rise to a new technique known as genetic ...

Many Europeans are fretting these days over what they eat, and whether horse meat might have adulterated their pork chops. Food fraud has been dominating headlines globally - calling for new policies ...

But it reads at about the speed of punch cards Imagine replacing thousands of LTO-9 tapes with just one cartridge. It's ...

Reliable technique should improve clinical trials, nutrition studies and historical research DURHAM, N.C. – What people say they’ve eaten and what they’ve actually eaten are often two very different ...

The increase in illegal logging and timber trade of CITES-listed tropical species necessitates the development of unambiguous identification methods at the species level. For these methods to be fully ...

It’s January 2013, and the UK and Ireland are both gripped by the same scandal. News has broken that several food products sold in both countries (all frozen burgers or ready meals) contain horse meat ...

DNA barcoding involves the use of only a tiny snippet of DNA to identify unknown species. The technique has become so popular of late that for the last three years, researchers started a meeting ...

DNA barcoding is now being used to identify the plant matter in human feces, revealing what a person has eaten. A reliable genetic marker for plant-based foods can be retrieved from poop, showing not ...