The FOODsens project (PRIN2022) begins its activities: Smart biosensors for monitoring the shelf-life and safety of plant-based minimally processed foods The recent inaugural meeting of the FOODsens project, supported by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and specifically by the Fund for the National Research Program and Projects of National Interest ... Read More

The OTASens Project (PRIN2022 PNRR) coordinated by the CNR-ISPA of Bari Takes Off: Advancing Food Safety in Swine Production Chain with an Innovative Biosensor for Ochratoxin Detection The kick-off meeting of the OTASens project, which took place on January 30, 2024, at the Institute of Sciences of Food Production (ISPA, Bari ... Read More

Polisaccaridi di origine microbica per lo sviluppo di lievitati da forno funzionali Valle Fiorita, nell’ambito del progetto AliFun, lavora alla ricerca di starter produttori di polisaccaridi da impiegare come sostituti naturali dei coadiuvanti tecnologici commerciali nei prodotti da forno L’impiego di idrocolloidi nell’industria bakery (e non solo) è in crescita. Innova Market ... Read More

The Fusarium Laboratory Workshop 2023 was jointly organized by CNR Ispa and International Society of Mycotoxicology in Bari, Italy on 18-23 June 2023. The workshop will be taught by international Fusarium experts. Participants will be introduced to standard morphological, genetic and molecular biological techniques used to identify and characterize strains of Fusarium. Participants will learn ... Read More

Capurso, Scuola Montalcini, un seminario del CNR per gli studenti sul tema “Alimenti, nutrizione e salute” Ieri, 16 gennaio, dalle 10:30 alle 12, presso l’auditorium della scuola secondaria di primo grado “Montalcini” si è tenuto un seminario dal titolo “Alimenti, nutrizione salute”, organizzato dai dipartimenti di Lettere e Scienze, in collaborazione con ... Read More

Awareness of the importance of following dietary recommendations that meet specific biological requirements relating to a person's health status has greatly increased the interest in personalized nutrition. The biofortification of vegetables with soilless cultivation techniques now makes it possible to adapt the production of foods of plant origin to specific dietary ... Read More

The project “Viruses and human milk: transmission or protection”, co-funded by FondazioneIolandaMinoli, Milano, is carried out by an interdisciplinary research team, involving ISPA CNR researchers, led by Laura Cavallarin, virologists, led byDavid Lembo,Head of the Molecular Virology lab at the Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences of the University of ... Read More

From a study conducted by the CNR Institute of Science of Food Production, in collaboration with the John Innes Center in Norwich and published in the journal Nature Plants, a new tomato line is designed to counteract the deficiency of vitamin D According to some estimates, about 40% of the European ... Read More

Dr. Maurizio Vurro, Research Director at the Bari section of ISPA, was recently elected Vice President of EWRS, the European Weed Research Society (www.ewrs.org), an international scientific society of great prestige, dealing with research activities on weeds. In particular, the EWRS acts to: promote and encourage weed research and management ... Read More