A miso test on the International Space Station shows fermenting food is not only possible in space, it adds nuttier notes to the Japanese condiment.

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Fermentation is one of the oldest food preservation techniques, used by cultures worldwide to enhance flavour, improve ...

Urbanization is reshaping soil microbial communities worldwide, driving an unexpected homogenization of bacterial populations ...

Researchers at Tecnológico de Monterrey have developed a breakthrough method to convert whey waste into single-cell protein ...

The illustration depicts that farmer’s harvest heading to the right to be processed by a fermentation plant powered by wind turbines and solar panels. The resulting fermentation broth of water, salts, ...

Protein sources that come from animals do not contain carbohydrates that are taken up by gut bacteria. So, choosing to eat animal proteins is a safe bet when you want to avoid gas or bloat. You can ...

Fermentation enhances food preservation, and eating fermented foods can also boost the number of beneficial bacteria, or probiotics, in your gut. Fermentation is a process in which bacteria and ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

Indole metabolites produced by probiotic bacteria activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), a transcription factor important for immune cell regulation. Cancer patients with high plasma ...