“Prebiotics are selectively fermented ingredients that allow specific changes in the gastrointestinal microbiota that confer health benefits to the host. ...
“The use of computers in science now may bring images of data-crunching parallel processing and Unix-inspired open-source collaborations, but there was a ...
“”Laurie Cox, a graduate student who works in the lab, held up the test tube with the 100-year-old bacterium. She explained that they can determine ...
Title: PLoS ONE: Antifungal Activity of Microbial Secondary Metabolites “Secondary metabolites are well known for their ability to impede other microorgan...
“It’s a “carefully done study,” adds George Church, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. “Non-s...
“Hundreds of species of bacteria call the human gut their home. This gut “microbiome” influences our physiology and health in ways that scient...
“Lager may have its roots in Bavaria, but a key ingredient arrived from halfway around the world. Scientists have discovered that the yeast used to brew t...
“Cooper is the House’s conscience, a lonely voice for civility in this ugly era. He remembers when compromise was not a dirty word and politicians put cou...
“In Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” Gulliver encounters a small group of immortals, the struldbrugs. “Those excellent...
“A tiny spare bedroom is not an ideal space for a high tech biofabrication facility. To get to the one Josh Perfetto is putting together, visitors must wa...