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	<title>News from the Institute of Food Research</title>
	
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		<title>£29 million investment in research and innovation at the Institute of Food Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Willetts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New research on the physical and chemical nature of food and its impact on health will help drive innovation in the UK and worldwide. The research will make it possible for new healthy and safer food products to be developed, reducing the need for medical and social intervention. It will provide new insights into how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFR joins the Cub Scouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IFR Research Scientist and STEM Ambassador, Mark Fernandes, describes his day spent making Yoghurt and explaining Science to over 200 Cub Scouts at the Norfolk Showground. On Saturday the 5th of May, I and three other STEM Ambassadors, Jill from the Space Conference venue, UEA student Amy and Neil,an electrical engineer, delivered an outreach activity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The foodborne bacterium Campylobacter requires selenium for respiration of organic acids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 08:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnoud van Vliet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campylobacter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.ifr.ac.uk/?p=1768</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Institute of Food Research have discovered why the micronutrient selenium is important to the survival of Campylobacter bacteria, which are responsible for an estimated half a million cases of food poisoning annually in the UK alone. Knowing how and why Campylobacter uses selenium could help develop ways of controlling it, benefitting public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epigenetics, folates and the human gut</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[epigenetics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ian johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nigel belshaw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IFR is exploring epigenetic changes in cells that line the human gut, which are linked to our vulnerability to developing cancer. Here, Professor Ian Johnson comments on DNA methylation, and on a new study from Nigel Belshaw’s group which suggests that prolonged exposure to increased, supra-nutritional doses of folic acid may cause these epigenetic changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFR in the City Lecture ‘Food for a leaner future’</title>
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		<comments>http://news.ifr.ac.uk/2012/04/ifr-in-the-city-lecture-food-for-a-leaner-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ifr in the city]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During National Science and Engineering Week, Dr Susan Jebb, Head of Diet and Population Health at the Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research Unit (HNR) gave the annual IFR in the City Lecture. Her talk, ‘Food for a leaner future’ touched on the science underpinning nutrition, from basic fundamental aspects through to social sciences, but focussed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK-Vietnam Workshop on Biofuels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keith Waldron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Keith Waldron has attended a UK-Vietnam Workshop on Biofuels, sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the British Embassy. Vietnam is a centre of rice growing and production, and the waste rice straw from this could represent a significant source of biofuels. To help in exploiting this, BBSRC set up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference poster prize for Toxoplasma gondii work</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IFRNews/~3/fy1iANjeOjk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caroline weight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toxoplasma gondii]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PhD student Caroline Weight recently won a prize for a poster that she presented at an international conference on aspects of tight junctions, which are specialised connections between adjacent epithelial cells. Her poster outlined some of the major findings from her PhD on how the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii targets tight junctions and occludin protein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exposure to stomach acid primes Campylobacter for intestinal infection</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IFRNews/~3/-_TU5z5w_AM/</link>
		<comments>http://news.ifr.ac.uk/2012/04/exposure-to-stomach-acid-primes-campylobacter-for-intestinal-infection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnoud van Vliet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campylobacter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Carding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Campylobacter is a major cause of foodborne gastroenteritis, with an estimated 500,000 infections annually in the UK. The most common infection route is on undercooked poultry meat, and then crossing the lining of the small intestine. To do this, the bacteria must survive the highly acidic conditions in the stomach, and then find a way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beneforte broccoli finalist in national innovation competition</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IFRNews/~3/hLPZprZpBGQ/</link>
		<comments>http://news.ifr.ac.uk/2012/04/innovator2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[BBSRC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Mithen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Richard Mithen of the Institute of Food Research was a finalist in the BBSRC Innovator of the Year Awards for the development of Beneforte broccoli, a consumer product from UK plant research. The new broccoli variety contains higher levels of a key phytonutrient thanks to Prof. Mithen and colleagues’ research on both the biology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How food researchers do what we do</title>
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		<comments>http://news.ifr.ac.uk/2012/03/how-food-researchers-do-what-we-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Mithen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many diseases are preventable and diet can play an important part in preventing them. Providing dietary advice that can help people live longer and reduce the burden on the NHS requires accurate and specific information. Professor Richard Mithen and Dr Maria Traka have published a review in The Plant Cell journal of the different ways [...]]]></description>
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