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Fermentation
Fermentation: a metabolic process that consumes sugar in the absence of oxygen. The products are organic acids, gases, or alcohol. It occurs in yeast and bacteria, and also in oxygen-starved muscle cells, as in the case of lactic acid fermentation. The science of fermentation is known as zymology.
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NOV 09, 2016
Earth & The Environment
What do you do with your food waste? Most people’s waste goes into the trash bin and then they don’t think a
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 24, 2016
Microbiology
For as long as civilization has existed, the enjoyment of fermented drinks has been a part of various cultures and tradi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 02, 2016
Videos
For some, a glass of wine is just a nice drink that goes with a meal or a chat with a good friend. For others, it's abou
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 17, 2016
Microbiology
Important fuels and chemicals have been made in generically engineered strains of Escherichia coli by modifying this mic
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 04, 2016
Microbiology
Many things go into shaping the flavor or terroir of wine. Food scientists working at the University of California, Davi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 22, 2016
Videos
While decay and germs are sometimes the cause of diseases and other negative impacts on the earth, some of this kind of
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 02, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Best known for its impressively sized honker of a nose and engorged beer-gut belly, proboscis monkeys are quite the sigh
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 19, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
In West and Central Africa, a bite from the tsetse fly could send a person in to a fatal coma. Doctors have now develope
...
AUG 02, 2015
Videos
Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cocoa bean tree also known as Theobroma cacao. The trees are commonly grown in t
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUL 30, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Okay, at first this might seem a little … odd, but once you start learning the details it will start to make sense. So,
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 21, 2015
Health & Medicine
The use of donkey milk dates back to 460-370 B.C. when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, reportedly would prescribe d
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUL 20, 2015
Videos
Although most bacteria cannot colonize in the high acidity and low oxygen conditions in brewing beer, the bacteria that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 03, 2015
Microbiology
Researchers in Switzerland and Japan say they have developed a rapid, simple, and safe method for generating large libra
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 04, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Throughout the world, beer is a welcome refreshment. In order to satisfy an increasingly discriminating customer brewers
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 25, 2014
Earth & The Environment
CO2, which is generally accepted as being the leading cause of climate change, has been increasing in the atmosphere for
...
Written By:
Peter Micheli
JAN 27, 2014
Chemistry & Physics
Biofuels offer a reasonable alternative to conventional fuels, and there are many research paths vying for a process tha
...