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Cultivate Acetic Acid Bacteria for Artisan Vinegar
Vinegar is a dynamic culinary ingredient with a rich history and unique flavors. Created through fermentation of ethanol, including...

Sylvia Rose
Jan 75 min read
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Green Coffee: Consumer Facts & Information
Green coffee is unroasted coffee. The green seeds or "beans" of the coffee cherry are covered in a whitish mucilage, tucked inside the...

Sylvia Rose
Jan 77 min read
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Flavors of Coffee: From Harvest to Homestead
Coffee lovers welcome the smooth, rich aroma of the morning brew. The journey from coffee tree to flavorful cuppa Joe is a captivating...

Sylvia Rose
Jan 68 min read
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Cherish the Chocolate: Sweet Fermentation
Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved indulgences. The journey from cacao bean to chocolate bar is a series of artful processes,...

Sylvia Rose
Jan 55 min read
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Brettanomyces: Favorite Artisan Wild Yeast
Brettanomyces is a wild yeast with domestic traits. "Brett" is found throughout the natural world. Microscopy helps define and...

Sylvia Rose
Jan 57 min read
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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...

Sylvia Rose
Jan 36 min read
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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...

Sylvia Rose
Jan 26 min read
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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...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 31, 20244 min read
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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...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 28, 20245 min read
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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...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 27, 20247 min read
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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....

Sylvia Rose
Dec 25, 20246 min read
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Pyrococcus furiosus: Extremophile of Vulcano
Pyrococcus furiosus is an extremophile first discovered in the boiling hot, anaerobic conditions of the volcanic island Vulcano. This...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 25, 20244 min read
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Silvanus: Roman God of Wild Lands & Fields
Silvanus is a rustic Roman god of wilderness, fields, livestock, boundaries, music and fertility. His name comes from the Latin silva ...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 24, 20243 min read
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Vulcano: Child Miners, Gods & Extremophiles
Vulcano is part of the Aeolian Island archipelago of Italy. Named for Vulcan, Roman god of fire and metalworking, Vulcano is a unique...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 24, 20245 min read
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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...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 22, 20244 min read
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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...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 22, 20248 min read
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Microbial Reproduction: Mitosis & Meiosis
Cell division is a core process of life in the microworld. Mitosis and meiosis are two types of reproduction in microbes such as algae,...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 21, 20245 min read
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Wild Yeast: Microbes Acting Naturally
Wild yeast is a fascinating part of the natural world. Ubiquitous and often overlooked, it's a coveted organism of science, well-known by...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 20, 20248 min read
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How Yeast Transforms Sugars to Booze
Yeast is a single-celled fungus essential for fermentation. It transforms simple sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide, a process...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 19, 20245 min read
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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...

Sylvia Rose
Dec 18, 20244 min read
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