Yeast left over from brewing beer can be transformed into edible "scaffolds" for cultivated meat—sometimes known as lab-grown ...

“While it’s relatively easy to grow animal cells for mass food production you need to be able to grow them on something cheap ...

A new study tests whether spent yeast from breweries can supply cellulose scaffolds that support lab-grown meat production.

An update from Nanollose Ltd. ( ($AU:NC6) ) is now available. Nanollose has delivered a 200kg upgraded batch of microbial cellulose feedstock to ...

Cellulose is the most abundant natural product in the biosphere 1, with plant cell walls representing the most important source, where it serves as a structural component 2. During plant growth, the ...

Humans eat plants, but for the longest time, it was thought that we could not break down cellulose, unlike some animals such as horses and cows that ferment plants to release energy. Plant cell walls ...

Researchers made a strong, flexible plastic from plant cellulose that breaks down quickly in natural environments, unlike ...

A team led by researchers from the University of Houston and Rice University has demonstrated a method for producing stronger, multifunctional bacterial cellulose sheets that could support the ...