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How Microbes Craft Cheese Flavors
Bacterial strains compete and cooperate to make cheddar cheese tasty.
How Microbes Craft Cheese Flavors
How Microbes Craft Cheese Flavors
Bacterial strains compete and cooperate to make cheddar cheese tasty.
Bacterial strains compete and cooperate to make cheddar cheese tasty.
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Cheddar Cheese Lovers Have Interactive Microbes to Thank
Vaishnavi Sridhar, PhD
| May 16, 2024
| 3 min read
Scientists used a commercial year-long cheddar making process to show how various bacterial communities interact and contribute to the distinct flavor of cheddar.
Deleting a Gene Quells a Pesky Cheese-Destroying Fungus
Natalia Mesa, PhD
| Jun 30, 2023
| 3 min read
Fungi disrupt microbial communities on cheese by making antibiotics.
Competition and Cooperation of Cheese Rind Microbes Exposed
Ashley Yeager
| Jan 1, 2019
| 4 min read
Transposon mutagenesis give scientists a rare look at the most important interactions within microbial communities.
Cheese Helped Fuel Early Farmers in Europe
Shawna Williams
| Dec 1, 2018
| 4 min read
Scientists have found traces of the dairy product in 7,200-year-old pottery in Croatia.
Image of the Day: Bacterial Highways
The Scientist
and The Scientist Staff
| Jan 25, 2018
| 1 min read
Fungal pathways in cheese rinds affect the composition of bacterial communities residing there.
Stinky Cheese
Bob Grant
| Dec 1, 2013
| 2 min read
Researchers collaborate to create fermented food products using microbes harvested from some malodorous parts of the human body.
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