Research

Last chance to enter the NutraIngredients Awards 2017

01-Feb-2017

Today is your last chance to enter your innovative ingredients, products, research and services to one of the 13 categories in our NutraIngredients Awards 2017.

British Columbia Institute of Technology partners with UNPA

15-Jun-2016

The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) has announced a new formal, collaborative partnership with the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) as its newest Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Partner.

Evolva sponsors study on resveratrol supplementation in post-menopausal women

10-May-2016 By Adi Menayang

The study is an extension of an earlier one by the same researchers presented at the 2015 World Diabetes Congress, showing how resveratrol can play a role in slowing cognitive decline in Type 2 diabetes.

Special edition: Ayurveda

Continuing science will boost Ayurveda, even given tension over best research models to use, experts say

24-Mar-2016 By Hank Schultz

Accelerating interest in the personalization of medicine and the accumulation of a body of research will help drive increasing acceptance of Ayurveda in the West, experts say, albeit with a continuing tension between synergistic and single-ingredient...

Work on cranberry helped research manager bridge university/industry divide

08-Jul-2015 By Hank Schultz

Linking the goals of companies in the dietary supplement sector with the objectives of university researchers is more art than science. Working with companies like Canadian cranberry supplier Fruit d’ Or has helped Christian Krueger, research program...

Special edition: Outsourcing

Outsourcing science: Where does the future of industry research lie?

20-May-2015 By Nathan Gray

An trend for outsourcing science and research may be good news for contract research organisations (CROs) and open innovation partnerships, but does it mean that internal R&D is suffering?

CULTURED VIEWS FROM PROBIOTA 2015 IN AMSTERDAM

Biased by industry? Do academic and business collaborations work?

02-Mar-2015 By Nathan Gray

Like many areas of nutrition research, probiotic and prebiotic science relies on strong collaboration between academic experts and businesses. But there are some who say such links create biased science.

NBTY forms scientific advisory council to ‘take the company to the next level of industry leadership’

12-Feb-2015 By Stephen DANIELLS

Supplement giant NBTY has formed a scientific advisory council, with its chair Dr David Katz describing it as “cross-disciplinary collaboration [that] is fantastic for industry development, achievement and advancement”.

Resveratrol researcher and player refute high-dose study findings

02-Jan-2014

A study that found high doses of the polyphenol, resveratrol, could inhibit exercise benefits in older people, has been attacked in the same journal that published the original work back in June for methodology and statistical errors.

Food supplements for malnutrition and geriatrics offer research and innovation opportunities: Study

16-Dec-2013 By Shane STARLING

A survey of enteral nutrition 'key opinion leaders (KOLs)' has found that the research and development of food supplements for battling malnutrition and geriatrics has the highest priority, whilst treatment improvements in the area of intensive...

Vitafoods Europe calls for 2014 conference papers

13-Nov-2013

Organisers of Vitafoods 2014 want submissions for the next year’s conference that runs in conjunction with the Geneva ingredients and finished expo on May 6-8 next year.

Collaboration was key design parameter for Kemin's new R&D facility

28-Aug-2013 By Hank Schultz

Kemin Industries is seeking to better harness the brain power of the scientists behind its various business units with opening of its new Molecular Advancement Center at its corporate headquarters in Des Moines, IA.

IASC takes issue with description of aloe used in research study

30-May-2013 By Hank Schultz

The International Aloe Science council has weighed in on an aloe science study that does not adequately characterize the ingredient in its description. The term “nondecolorized” should have been included so as not to mislead consumers, the group says.

Phytochemicals show anti-inflammatory and brain health benefits: Pure Encapsulations/ Atrium Innovations

04-Apr-2013 By Stephen DANIELLS

Polyphenol-rich extracts from fruit and vegetables may have molecular targets with potential relevance to cardiometabolic and neurological health, according to new data.

‘Mini gut’ technology aims to make probiotic research more efficient and cheaper, says TNO

20-Feb-2013 By Nathan Gray

A new technology that utilises intestinal stem cells to grown mini gut structures in the lab promises to help probiotic researchers achieve efficient and cost effective research, according to TNO.

Re-forming resveratrol: Bioavailability issues are no more as researchers reveal metabolites regenerate

04-Jan-2013 By Nathan Gray

Metabolites from the break-down of resveratrol have been shown to come together and regenerate the compound inside living cells, leaving researchers questioning whether worries over bioavailability are relevant.

Are all foods linked to cancer? Yes … but don’t worry, say researchers

20-Dec-2012 By Nathan Gray

There is evidence linking almost every food or ingredient to cancer, but don’t worry because the evidence for pretty much all of it is very weak, say researchers.

Researchers seek food industry help to develop next generation of brain foods

11-Sep-2012 By Elaine WATSON

The researchers behind Emulin - a blood glucose control ingredient attracting interest from some of the biggest brands in food and drink - is asking food manufacturers to help it design the best food delivery format for a new citrus-based ingredient targeting...

Special edition: Oral health

Assessing the oral ecosystem: New research consortium aims to define the ‘healthy’ mouth

22-Aug-2012 By Nathan Gray

Defining what constitutes ‘healthy’ is a difficult task for any nutrition researcher. And when it comes to oral health in particular, very little is known about what influences a normal healthy mouth, according the co-ordinator of a new research consortium...

Influential MD Anderson natural products researcher under investigation for alleged research fraud

12-Apr-2012 By Stephen Daniells

MD Anderson Cancer Center is conducting an investigation into alleged research fraud by an influential natural products researcher, NutraIngredients-USA can confirm.

Disgraced resveratrol researcher: “Uni of Connecticut launched a conspiracy programme against Indians”

17-Jan-2012 By Shane Starling

Dr Dipak K Das, PhD, the once lauded and now infamous resveratrol researcher accused by his longtime employer the University of Connecticut of fabricating data over seven years in more than 25 individual studies, says he is the victim of a racist campaign...

Research veteran on shamed resveratrol academic: “Once or twice maybe. 26 times? That takes a special mind.”

16-Jan-2012 By Shane Starling

The resveratrol and broader nutrition science community continues to reel from last week’s revelations that Dipak K Das, PhD, “one of the world’s great red wine and resveratrol researchers” allegedly doctored results in at least 26 peer-reviewed resveratrol...

7 years. 26 journal articles. 145 fraud instances. The heart of a resveratrol research scandal

13-Jan-2012 By Shane Starling

The resveratrol research community won’t be badly damaged by a University of Connecticut researcher accused of publishing falsified data on the red wine antioxidant over seven years in 26 journal articles, say industry observers and the man at the middle...

Industry pays tributes to Norman Farnsworth, renowned medicinal plant researcher

13-Sep-2011

Norman R. Farnsworth, PhD, renowned pharmacognosist and internationally-respected medicinal plant research expert, has passed away at the age of 81.

Leading scientists welcome Mars backed cocoa genome breakthrough

16-Sep-2010 By Jane Byrne

A breakthrough in cocoa genetics by a collaboration involving Mars, USDA and IBM will accelerate research into the production of trees that can better resist drought, disease and pests, and has met with an enthusiastic welcome from leading cocoa scientists...

FDA recommends greater conflict of interest transparency

22-Apr-2010 By staff reporter

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has called for more transparency regarding conflict of interest statements when the agency waives them to allow experts to participate in scientific advisory meetings.

Grants offered for keen young probiotics researchers

30-Oct-2009 By staff reporter

Companies active in the probiotics field are aiming to expand scientific knowledge of the relationship between probiotics, gastrointestinal microbiota and the body, with two new $50,000 research grants.

DSM courts academia with Science Awards

25-Jun-2009 By Shaen Starling

Manfred Eggersdorfer, director of research and development at DSM Nutritional Products, sat down with Shane Starling to discuss the value of open innovation and business/academia interaction after the 2009 DSM Science and Technology Awards in Switzerland...