Global probiotics market approaching $30bn by 2015: Report
“Global Industry Analysts (GIA) predicts the global probiotics market will be worth $28.8bn by 2015, even though the market is still considered to be in i...
Category: The Narrative
University of Massachusetts Amherst creates 12,000 square foot food garden — City Farmer News
“The story of a group of University of Massachusetts students who set out to initiate the construction of the school’s first permaculture garden a year ag...
Trend: Probiotics, and a commentary
When I lived in the US in the 90s, it was hard to find live-culture yogurt in supermarkets (you could find them in natural food stores, of course). The only one...
Fortify your poop – Transfaunation
As you know, I’m always looking for practical uses of microbes. One that I stumbled upon a long while back was “transfaunation”, or, seeding o...
Health benefits and health claims of probiotics: bridging science and marketing – BJN
“Health claims for probiotics are evaluated by the Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies of the European Food Safety Authority. Despite a su...
A massive comfort : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
“Widely described as the point of no return, the event horizon of SgrA* would be the largest in our skies, but still just 30 microarcseconds across — the ...
Microbiology puts food on the table : Nature Reviews Microbiology
“During the upcoming holidays, many events will involve traditional foods, such as turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas. That microorganisms can spoil any...
Research at Janelia: Life on the farm : Nature News & Comment
“But what happens next? Can Janelia Farm do ‘great science’ during the next 5 to 10 years? Will it pass Rubin’s deletion test? Can it re...
Thoughts on completing NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo, as you probably know, stands for National November Writing Month. It’s a crazy-ass month-long 50,000-word writing challenge. I’ve known a...
Teach me: Does Hadoop signal the end of the database?
I am still a novice when it comes to the technical underpinnings of databases and Hadoop. So, I thought it might be useful if I just asked if my thought on the ...