A study has again established the effects of microorganisms on human food and healthy living, courtesy of recent research by Dr. Stephen Akinola, a researcher at The Ohio State University, United ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Today, Onyeaka is an industrial microbiologist and a deputy director of the ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. As a teenager growing up in Nigeria, Helen Onyeaka was obsessed with microorganisms. The tiny lifeforms, which include bacteria and yeast, can be grown ...

With all the news about foodborne disease in the press lately, have you ever worried that a trip to the grocery store could ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...

Based on this model, researchers have engineered synthetic versions that grow faster and are designed to function in harsh ...

Advanced fermentation using microorganisms to make protein promises a paradigm shift to feed the growing global population, just as selective livestock breeding did in the 19th century and the ...

A new crop of biotech startups are working on an alternative to alternative protein. Dried cells—it’s what’s for dinner. At least that’s what a new crop of biotech startups, armed with carbon-guzzling ...