Archives for August 4, 2005

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Bioinformatics may isolate food allergy proteins

By  Chris Mercer

A team of UK scientists will analyse and demonstrate how bioinformatics could help food companies improve their products, from pin-pointing allergy-causing proteins to identifying the cause of batch spoilage.

Renewed debate over milk and ovarian cancer risk

There is evidence to support the putative link between consumption of milk products and ovarian cancer risk, finds a new meta-analysis of epidemiological studies, but the case is far from cut and dried.