Study sheds light on how salmonella bacteria infect plants
Researchers found that unlike other disease-causing bacteria, salmonella sneaks in through a tiny gap created when a lateral root …
Enzyme from Yak cheese can boost nutritional value of cereals
The newly identified enzyme helps to increase bioavailability of iron, zinc, magnesium and calcium
Indian scientists decipher how Salmonella survives in human cells
Salmonella is the causative agent of typhoid and gastroentritis
Science and Technology - Briefs
Red alert on Indian spices
Spice Board challenges US food department’s claims over salmonella contamination
Environmental changes, not resistant germs, reason for rise of epidemics, says study
Mutations in bacteria may eventually disappear, but this should not be seen as weakening the case of antibiotic resistance, say doctors
Faster and sharper
Peptide-based biosensor can detect food contamination by Salmonella in minutes
Unsafe food is 'growing global threat', says WHO
Organisation estimates that unsafe food contributed to 351,000 deaths in 2010
Starving hens now an offence
Animal Welfare Board says practice a violation of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act
When business rules our kitchens