Media Release | November 25, 2013 Two compounds derived from garlic may help contaminants in baby formula, says a UBC study. Photo: Rüdiger Wölk, Münster/Wikimedia Commons. Garlic may be bad for your breath, but it’s good for your baby, according… Read More ›
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Grape Seed Extract Bollixes Norovirus
Slice of red grape, showing seeds. (Credit: © HamsterMan / Fotolia) ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012) — Norovirus causes more than half of all food-born illnesses in the United States, and is the second greatest source of reported food borne illness… Read More ›
Probiotics to Decontaminate Your Gut?
Heavy metals and other toxins frequently contaminate food and water. The culprits read like a litany of bad actors—lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, chromium—but their numbers run into the thousands. Microbes have long been enlisted for bioremediation, but they also… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 