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AUGUST 31, 2023

Engaging with the science behind food Published: The preparation of food is biochemically complex. Ibrahim has established the Food Microbiology and Biotechnology Lab. By providing students with opportunities to learn about and participate in food science research, the lab is also inspiring the next generation of food scientists.

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MAY 9, 2023

At the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA, Dr Wei Zhang , a professor of food science, is focusing on improving food safety for everyone. Currently, Wei is developing new research ideas that will allow him to study how Cronobacter is able to survive these dry conditions. 420,000 of those people die.

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MARCH 21, 2023

The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says. How to engineer a microbe Synthetic biology makes use of the rapidly progressing science of genetic engineering, which involves changing an organism’s genes so that it will express different proteins.

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JULY 13, 2023

However, western science often ignores this traditional knowledge, marginalising Indigenous scientists and discouraging Indigenous students from pursuing careers in STEM. How does traditional knowledge inform western science? Why is traditional knowledge undervalued by western science?

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