The interesting story behind this buzzworthy Nova Scotia cider maker Posted March 9, 2021
Jake Foley, the owner of Sourwood Cider is, or has been, a musician, violin maker, sculptor, and craftsman. He approaches most things in his life with an artist’s eye and touch, including apples. And apples have, recently, become his life.
He wasn’t intending for them to be. He was into fermentation–he loved kimchi, and sauerkraut, and kombucha–all the funky, gut-loving probiotics. And then one day, not long after returning home to Ontario from England where he studied violin-making, he picked some apples with some friends and let them ferment. They tasted good.
Monash University
An internationally renowned Monash researcher, whose work could change the way high blood pressure is treated, has been awarded the 2021 Gottschalk Medal by the Australian Academy of Science.
Associate Professor Francine Marques was awarded the Gottschalk Medal for her work on high blood pressure. The Gottschalk Medal honours the contributions to the medical sciences by the late Dr A. Gottschalk FAA.
About a third of Australians older than 18 have high blood pressure, with the incidence increasing with age. The blood pressure of most of these patients remains uncontrolled due to lack of treatment or poor response to currently available therapies. This is because often they don’t know they have the condition, which is also known a ‘a silent killer’ because of the lack of symptoms.
Wild Tonic Jun Kombucha (fermented from honey and green tea instead of traditional cane sugar and black tea) is banking on several growth trends in the kombucha category this year including its refreshed slim cans and expanding line of hard kombucha.
7:25 AM, 12th February 2021 BASF formally opened the Isobionics® new distillation plant at Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen, Netherlands.
GELEEN, NETHERLANDS: Toine Janssen, CEO of Isobionics® formally opened the new Isobionics distillation plant at Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen, Netherlands. Steffen Gotz, head of BASF s Aroma Ingredients business, Jurgen Hoekstra, managing director BASF Nederland and Bert Kip, CEO of Brightlands Chemelot Campus, joined the event virtually.
The Isobionics approach to producing natural fragrance and flavor ingredients is unique around the world. The company´s proprietary technology is based on fermentation, a traditional technique well known from processes such as brewing beer and baking bread. In this method, a substance is converted into a target product with the help of microorganisms such as bacteria or fungi. This process is based on renewable raw materials. Distillation is the
MIT Study Reveals Why Cancer Cells Switch to Lethargic Process of Sugar Breakdown
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A new study by the scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found how cancer cells use an unusual process of multiplying. The study, that answers a longstanding mystery on the proliferating unhealthy cells in the human body, will be published in
Molecular Cell journal.
The study was conducted by MIT biologists Matthew Vander Heiden, senior author of the new study, and the lead authors, former MIT graduate student and postdoc Alba Luengo (PhD ’18) and graduate student, Zhaoqi Li. Their research showed that metabolic procedure, known as fermentation, helps cancer cells to regenerate large quantities of a molecule called NAD+, which they need to synthesize DNA and other important molecules. Speaking to MIT News, Heiden said that according to their study under certain circumstances, cells need to do more of the electron transfer reactions, which require NAD+ in