Lactic acid bacteria are critical to the dairy, food processing, and nutrition industries. Used as probiotics, flavor compounds, and starter cultures for fermented foods such as yogurt, the bacteria ...

Probiotics—live microorganisms in fermented foods, dietary supplements, and beauty products that have health benefits when consumed or applied to the body—include the yeast, Saccharomyces boulardii.

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Researchers have discovered that a micro-protein, which they named Nrs1, supports cell division and proliferation when nutrients are scarce. Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the ...