A new fresco depicting an Italian flatbread has been discovered at Pompeii. Culinary archaeologist Farrell Monaco offers a recipe to make it and explains why it's not a pizza.
Qurt is salty, long-lasting, and packed with protein.
Capture wild microbesand turn them into bread – for science!
To stay healthy, humans and some other animals rely on a complex community of bacteria in their guts. But research is starting to show that those partnerships might be more the exception than the rule.
“Every organism that exists has three and a half billion years of evolutionary history behind it, many millions or tens or hundreds of millions of which are not shared with organisms that we use as models,” Sanders said. Scientists’ emerging awareness of the diverse relationships that animals share with microbes “should make us really cautious about drawing inferences using fruit flies as models for gut microbiome importance or interactions, because fruit flies might be operating from a very different fundamental starting point compared to humans. It’s the same thing with mice.”
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An apple contains about 100 million bacteria—a more diverse range than any dietary supplement.
Eat a “balanced” diet, full of fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, et cetera. If you do all that, except for specific cases, the average person shouldn’t need supplemental microbes.
In 2010, when Lilli Holst scraped a lump of soil from the underside of a rotting eggplant, she had no idea that this act would help to save the life of a British teenager, eight years later and 6,000 miles away.
At the same time that the antibiotic era is running into serious problems because of antibiotic resistance, we may be at the dawn of the era of phage therapy for bacterial infections. But phage therapy is actually over a century old, so what we are seeing is the rebirth of phage therapy with far more advanced technology for biologics in general, and genetic manipulation specifically. Further, the combination of antibiotic and phage therapy may be particularly potent.But the history of phage therapy also tells us that we cannot get so caught up in the hype that we skip over careful and rigorous clinical research.
What is interesting about bacteriophages and other viruses in the gut is that every person has their own unique set, with almost no overlap between two different people.
