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

Germs and microbes play a vital role in many modern industries, where they are effectively used to improve productivity and ...

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 ...

When microbes make the food. by Harvard University. Todd Bellomy (right), a beer and sake aficionado, led students through the steps of sake brewing, using ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created a portable food safety device they hope will one day be used at ...

Tech & Science Tackling global hunger: Solar-powered microbes as a food source. A newly developed method uses solar energy, land, nutrients, and carbon dioxide from the air to create protein based ...

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 ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? By Sara Talpos/Undark Published Aug 22, 2024 8:33 AM EDT This article was ...

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 ...