Researchers from the IATA Packaging Group, in collaboration with the CIAL (CSIC-UAM), have developed oleogels that can serve as substitutes for solid fats in the production of foods such as bread and sausages. Oleogels are materials that contain a liquid vegetable oil, in whose formation process gelling agents capable of providing them with structure have been used. In the case of the study carried out by IATA, the agents used are edible carbohydrates (agares and carrageenan, from red algae),...
21. January 2022 - 14:49
20. January 2022 - 1:00
The Regional Ministry of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society has approved the financing of the IATA project "Updating and improving the service for processing and characterizing materials for food use" (IDIFEDER/2021/005). The purpose of the call for aid was the acquisition of R&D&i infrastructure and equipment and is co-financed by the European Union through the Operational Program of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the Valencian Community 2014-2020...
14. January 2022 - 1:00
Yolanda Sanz Herranz, research professor at the CSIC and head of the IATA "Microbial Ecology, Nutrition and Health" research group, has been appointed Manager of International Actions to collaborate in the preparation, management, monitoring and evaluation of scientific research programs of the CAA area (Agricultural and Agrifood Sciences) at the State Research Agency (AEI). Yolanda Sanz has focused her research work mainly on the study of the intestinal microbiota as a preventive and...
12. January 2022 - 16:57
The patent developed by the IATA Food Analytical Immunotechnology group together with UV researchers was acquired by Eurofins-Abraxis, who has announced on its website the launch of the Patulin ELISA Test Kit (https: //abraxis.eurofins-technologies .com / home / news / rapid-detection-of-patulin /), a plate enzyme immunoassay for the rapid analysis of patulin in applesauce, cider, apple juice, and orange juice. It is the only kit worldwide that allows to control the presence in food of this...
21. December 2021 - 7:25
The project "Optimization and validation of the production of new generation probiotics for obesity" of two years, awarded in 2020 by the Valencian Agency for Innovation (AVI - GVA) to the IATA's research group of Prof. Yolanda Sanz reaches its end with great results. This project focused on an intestinal bacterium with preclinical effectiveness against obesity, Phascolarctobacterium faecium (P. faecium) and had three main objectives: 1) To demonstrate that the bacterium is safe for consumption...
17. December 2021 - 1:00
On December 14, our colleague José M. Lagarón, from the research group New Materials and Nanotechnology for Food Applications, offered the opening conference of the X "Colloquium of Macromolecules-CM", organized by the Macromolecules Division of the Chilean Chemical Society . This scientific activity is carried out every two years, and it encourages the participation of students, through oral and poster presentations. In addition, national and international researchers attend. This year, due to...
13. December 2021 - 7:56
The IATA Microbial Ecology, Nutrition and Health research group, led by Yolanda Sanz, has identified a new intestinal bacterium of the genus Holdemanella that is capable of reducing blood glucose levels after meals and also improving metabolism in other organs as the liver. Both indicators are altered in people with obesity, with metabolic syndrome or with type 2 diabetes, so their regulation and functional restoration would be very beneficial for these pathologies. In the study, published in...
9. December 2021 - 7:15
The IATA Systems Biology in Yeasts of Biotechnological Interest group has published a study that discovers the genetic mechanisms by which Saccharomyces uvarum, one of the yeasts used to make wine, acts in its fermentation. The researchers observed that they are the same as those described in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, another yeast widely used in the industry, which would be the first case of evolutionary convergence of two different species of yeast in the face of an artificial mechanism...
30. November 2021 - 1:00
Last Monday, November 29, Gloria Sánchez, from the Microbiological Food Safety Group: detection of pathogens, conservation processes and risk assessment, participated in the 1st Scientific Conference of the Valencian Covid-19 Vaccine Research Program (ProVaVac), with the presentation "Epidemiology of SARS-COV-2 through wastewater". Gloria Sánchez's laboratory, together with other collaborators, developed a method at the beginning of the pandemic to track the presence of SARS-COV-2 in wastewater...
12. November 2021 - 1:00
Yesterday, Thursday, November 11, the IATA once again celebrated the CSIC Science and Technology Week with a special conference. This year, the guest was Dra. Amparo Querol, of the Systems Biology Group in Yeasts of Biotechnological Interest , with the conference " New yeasts : challenges and trends in oenology '', in which he spoke about the new challenges facing the wine sector, related to international competition, the effects of climate change and new consumer demands, and how yeast...