In response to rising challenges for farmers in India, the Government of Andhra Pradesh a state in southeast India, have been encouraging farmers to adopt Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)…Read More >
Agriculture, Food & Health
Developing a rapid test to help select effective antibiotic treatments – and prevent antimicrobial resistance
For World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Jessica Hayward, a Research Associate in Pharmaceutics at the University of Reading, explains about her work on a project developing miniaturised rapid antimicrobial testing. Having…Read More >
Menopause: HRT linked to depression – here’s what the evidence actually says
A growing number of women are turning to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to alleviate distressing symptoms of the menopause – including hot flushes, bladder weakness, vaginal dryness, joint pain, brain fog, sleep…Read More >
Why we need dietary recommendations for bioactives
In this blog, Gunter Kuhnle explains more about the first dietary recommendation for a type of plant compound that is not a vitamin – flavan-3-ols – found in tea, berries,…Read More >
Eating lots of meat is bad for the environment – but we don’t know enough about how consumption is changing
Responsible for roughly a third of the UK’s diet-related carbon emissions, the consumption and production of meat is a substantial contributor to climate change. A report commissioned by the government last year…Read More >
Heritage apples: the parentage of Cox’s Orange Pippin
This year, the National Fruit Collection celebrates its 100th anniversary and its 70th year at Brogdale Farm in Kent. Scientific Curator Matt Ordidge reflects on a recent study confirming the…Read More >
Tackling the obesity and non-communicable diseases epidemic in Malaysia
The World Population Review 2019 identified Malaysia as the fattest nation in South-East Asia. The percentage of obese and overweight adults in Malaysia increased from 50.1% in 2019 to 54.2%…Read More >
Pharmacists handing out antibiotics will not solve the GP crisis or antimicrobial resistance
Thérèse Coffey, the UK’s Health Secretary, has proposed that pharmacists should be able to hand out antibiotics without a doctor’s prescription. This has provoked alarm among medics and scientists, and…Read More >
World Food Day 2022: acting on the promise to leave no one behind
For World Food Day on 16 October 2022, Tracey Duncombe highlights how research funded through the Transforming UK Food Systems Programme is striving to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals’…Read More >
Building resilience for women with a breast cancer diagnosis
The Centre for Building Resilience in Breast Cancer (BRiC) is a unique, award-winning centre for the research and practice of resilience for women in the UK who are diagnosed with…Read More >
