Scientists in Germany have developed a method to obtain protein and vitamin B9 from microbes by providing them with little ...

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As a teenager, industrial microbiologist Helen Onyeaka dreamed of using microbes as food. She now researches microorganisms that could one day serve as a alternative protein source with a lower ...

Experiments in mice show that some gut bacteria can absorb toxic PFAS chemicals, allowing animals to expel them through feces.

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I n her U.K. lab, Onyeaka is growing Chlorella vulgaris, a green single-celled algae about 2 to 10 microns in diameter — roughly the width of a strand of spider silk.She and a graduate student ...

Researchers have mapped more than 2,500 foods to identify their microbiome, in the largest survey of its kind. They discovered a 3 per cent overlap between the microbes in food and in the adult ...

Making food with microbes would use less land and water and produce fewer emissions than many protein sources we rely on today, particularly high-impact ones like beef, Holmgren says.