Scientists have infected bacteria with a virus aboard the International Space Station to see how they would interact in ...

An international research team has investigated the chances of survival of kombucha cultures under Mars-like conditions. Kombucha is known as a drink, sometimes called tea fungus or mushroom tea, ...

Traditional biomanufacturing is based on microbial or mammalian cell culture, plants can be grown in bioreactors and hold ...

Researchers demonstrate that under low fluid shear force conditions that simulate those found in microgravity culture during spaceflight, the foodborne pathogen Salmonella infects 3-D models of human ...

A recent study published in LWT, found that bacterial cultures, known as protective cultures, can fight pathogens and prevent them from causing illness by hampering their ability to infect someone at ...

Maximal growth rate is a basic parameter of microbial lifestyle that varies over several orders of magnitude, with doubling times ranging from a matter of minutes to multiple days. Growth rates are ...

Ensuring pharmaceutical safety and efficacy hinges on rigorous quality control (QC). By identifying potential microbial contaminants early in drug development and production, microbial QC tests ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by Krishna Macha, Sushmita Sudarshan, Carina Gao, Oksana Sirenko, and Sheela Muley. Bacterial and yeast strains are central to microbiology, ...