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Dr Chris van Tulleken to deliver 2024 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Science broadcaster Dr Chris van Tulleken will deliver this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, focusing on how food has helped shape human evolution.

In Depth

Food forensics: how AI can smell authentic olive oil

Extra virgin olive (EVO) oils are highly complex. Here, Prof Chiara Cordero discusses the application of an AI smelling machine to analyse, qualify, categorise, and authenticate olive oil and counter…

Comment And Analysis

Farm to gutter: Genomic surveillance to track AMR

Governments are waking up to the dangers presented by antimicrobial resistance but the focus on clinical monitoring needs to be complemented with much more attention to livestock and wastewater conta…

Interviews

Science in the round

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) remains one of Europe’s largest multidisciplinary research bodies, with a vast network of facilities. Laboratory News interviewed Dr Ludmilla Mee

Focal Point

Pork tapeworm

This coloured scanning electron micrograph of the head of a pork tapeworm – Taenia solium – shows the hooks it uses to cling to its host.