Health & Medicine

Isolate Lactic Acid Bacteria for Artisan Flavors

Sylvia Rose

20 hours ago4 min read

Isolate Lactic Acid Bacteria for Artisan Flavors

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) create delicious flavors and tangy textures in dairy products like cheese, yogurt and fermented milk. These...

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Five Sugars: Glucose, Maltose, Fructose, Sucrose, Lactose

Sylvia Rose

1 day ago7 min read

Five Sugars: Glucose, Maltose, Fructose, Sucrose, Lactose

Sugars are primary consumables and influence how bodies function, often in surprising ways. Sugars are essential for overall health. The...

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Isolate Yeast & LAB Strains for Artisan Flavors

Sylvia Rose

2 days ago6 min read

Isolate Yeast & LAB Strains for Artisan Flavors

Yeast strains and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in artisan baking and beverage production can affect the flavor profile of the product, like...

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Mold Spores: Power Packs of Creation & Purpose

Sylvia Rose

2 days ago6 min read

Mold Spores: Power Packs of Creation & Purpose

Mold (mould) is a multi-faceted entity, with properties from food enrichment to serious health hazards. Central to survival of mold are...

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Sylvia Rose

3 days ago6 min read

ATP: Nature of Energy & Vital Functions

Adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, is known as the energy currency of life. Without ATP, essential cellular processes stop. From rhythm of...

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Sylvia Rose

4 days ago6 min read

Yeast: Process from Culture to Consumer

Yeast is a cultured fungus with many hidden talents. A single-celled organism, it transforms simple ingredients into delicious foods and...

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Pyruvate (Pyruvic Acid): Key to Life's Energy

Sylvia Rose

5 days ago4 min read

Pyruvate (Pyruvic Acid): Key to Life's Energy

Pyruvate, or pyruvic acid, is a powerful molecule essential in the energy production of living cells. An intermediate in metabolic...

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Sylvia Rose

5 days ago4 min read

How Lactic Acid Bacteria Make Yogurt

Yogurt is enjoyed throughout the world, created by the natural industry of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). Transformation of milk into yogurt...

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Milk into Cheese: Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB)

Sylvia Rose

5 days ago6 min read

Milk into Cheese: Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB)

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) work to help transform milk into cheese, creating unique flavors and textures. They ferment sugars, mainly...

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Glycolysis: Biochemistry of Holistic Health

Sylvia Rose

6 days ago5 min read

Glycolysis: Biochemistry of Holistic Health

Glycolysis is a biochemical pathway used by organisms to convert glucose into functional energy. This process happens in single-celled...

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Lactic Acid Bacteria: Team Players of Fermentation

Sylvia Rose

7 days ago5 min read

Lactic Acid Bacteria: Team Players of Fermentation

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are industrious microbes working to transform ingredients such as milk into cheese and cabbage into sauerkraut...

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Sylvia Rose

Dec 29, 20247 min read

German Romanticism: Nature & Emotion

German Romanticism (Deutsche Romantik) is an influential movement emphasizing profound emotions, the beauty of nature, and the power of...

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Binary Fission: Speedy Microbe Reproduction

Sylvia Rose

Dec 28, 20245 min read

Binary Fission: Speedy Microbe Reproduction

Binary fission is the primary method of reproduction for bacteria and other single-celled microbes, commonly explained as a parent cell...

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Amazing Yeast: Feeding, Breeding & Biofilms

Sylvia Rose

Dec 27, 20247 min read

Amazing Yeast: Feeding, Breeding & Biofilms

Yeast is a single-celled organism of kingdom Fungi. Immotile yet dynamic and adept, these microbes are a treat to scientists for their...

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Bacteria & Archaea: Differences & Similarities

Sylvia Rose

Dec 25, 20246 min read

Bacteria & Archaea: Differences & Similarities

Bacteria and archaea are the oldest life forms on Earth. Both defined as prokaryotes , they are fundamentally different in several ways....

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Pyrococcus furiosus: Extremophile of Vulcano

Sylvia Rose

Dec 25, 20244 min read

Pyrococcus furiosus: Extremophile of Vulcano

Pyrococcus furiosus is an extremophile first discovered in the boiling hot, anaerobic conditions of the volcanic island Vulcano. This...

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Prokaryotes & Eukaryotes: Life Forms on Earth

Sylvia Rose

Dec 22, 20244 min read

Prokaryotes & Eukaryotes: Life Forms on Earth

Prokaryotes and eukaryotes are the two major types of cellular creatures on Earth. Prokaryotes are among the first life 3.4 billion years...

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Yeast & Mold: Ancient Fungi, Modern World

Sylvia Rose

Dec 22, 20248 min read

Yeast & Mold: Ancient Fungi, Modern World

Yeast and mold are types of fungi, adept at the decomposition of organic matter. They share some similarities but each has a unique...

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Nitrogen Fixation & Evolution of Plant Life

Sylvia Rose

Dec 18, 20244 min read

Nitrogen Fixation & Evolution of Plant Life

Nitrogen fixation is essential for life on Earth. Despite nitrogen being the most abundant gas in our atmosphere, it exists mainly in...

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GI Yeast Hunter: Bacteroides thetaiotomicron

Sylvia Rose

Dec 16, 20245 min read

GI Yeast Hunter: Bacteroides thetaiotomicron

Bacteroides thetaiotomicron is found in the human gastrointestinal tract (GI) as part of the normal digestive system biota, along with...

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