There has been much interest in the potential for using probiotic bacteria for treating skin diseases and other disorders. Japanese researchers have now found that milk that has been fermented using a ...

Scientists in India have reported a rare case of infection in a woman who consumed unpasteurized dairy products before falling sick. Lactococcus lactis cremoris, previously known as Streptococcus ...

Pleurotus eryngii is one of the most commercially-grown mushrooms in the world. In this study, the pathogen causing postharvest water-soaked and sunken lesions on the stipes and decay of P. eryngii in ...

Figure 1: Rerouting carbon flux toward l-alanine by overproduction of alanine dehydrogenase (l-AlaDH) in an l-lactate dehydrogenase (l-LDH) and alanine racemase (ALR)-deficient strain. This work ...

In a basement in Frederiksberg, Denmark, two bottles had been collecting dust for over a century. Last year, in a stroke of luck, researchers from the University of Copenhagen stumbled upon them once ...

XPA and XRCC3 gene polymorphisms and survival in esophageal cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy with cisplatin (CDDP), docetaxel (DTX), and 5-fluorouracil (FU) ...