For more than a century, the industrial production of chemicals, fuels, foods, and medicines has relied on wild-type ...

Fermentation startups making food colors, proteins, sweeteners and specialty ingredients are attracting investment, ...

One of the great conversations in the wine world right now centers on the topic of natural wine. Natural wine has supporters, it has detractors, it has people in the middle that aren't sure. Believe ...

Are investors still interested in precision fermentation? While interest hasn't disappeared entirely, investors expect more ...

Have you ever eaten a sour pickle at a deli? If you have, you likely recall the lip-puckering combination of salt, sweet, sour, and acid. Mouthwatering to some people and unpalatable to others, the ...

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 ...

During World War II, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom approached the largest U.S. chemical and pharmaceutical companies to enlist them in the race to mass produce penicillin ...

Humans have used fermentation for thousands of years. Chemical residues from pottery at Jiahu, in central China, date a fermented beverage of rice, honey, and fruit to roughly 9,000 years ago, and ...

Fermentation is a process that dates back thousands of years and was the first example of biotechnology in human history. The impact of fermentation on ancient culture and food cannot be understated, ...