Monthly Archives:April 2015
From farm to plate, make food safe!
Today on World Health Day 2015, the World Health Organization are campaigning to raise awareness of food safety as a priority area of public health concern.
Could fecal transplants be the way forward for treatingC. difficileinfection?
Michael Sadowsky is co-author on a paper published inMicrobiomerevealing that transplantation of fecal matter is more successful for treatingClostridium difficileinfections than previously thought. Here he explains how healthy changes to a patient’s microbiome were sustained for up to 21 weeks after transplant and what this means for the future of treatingC. difficile.
Eating with our ears
Taste probably comes to mind first when you think about what constitutes our flavor perception. But there is much more to flavor than meets the eye (or should that be tongue?) and one sense that’s often overlooked is hearing.