Compared with common sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose, tagatose exists only in tiny amounts in nature. It appears in milk and dairy products when lactose is broken down by heat or enzymes ...

Scientists at Tufts University have developed a cheaper, high-yield method to produce tagatose, a rare sugar that tastes like ...

Experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that bacteriophages can still infect Escherichia coli under ...

Tagatose acts almost exactly like sugar—offering sweetness, bulk and texture in baked goods—and is created with the help of ...

Gut microbes can make people drunk without booze. Scientists now know which ones to blame. Some people can get drunk without ...

Some people get drunk without drinking because their gut bacteria produce alcohol from food. Researchers have now identified the microbes and biological pathways behind this rare condition, ...

In new experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), microbiologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

A research team says their findings could help tackle soaring antibiotic-resistant infections that cause urinary tract ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

A study in mice on small RNAs in sperm helps explain how the health of fathers can influence the health of their offspring.

Only two meat samples were found to be positive for E. coli as part of a monitoring program in France. The findings come from ...