Microbes in the News


Microbes team up to produce Kefir

Article synopsis:
Kefir, an effervescent nutritious dairy drink popular in the Caucasus Mountains, is fermented from milk through an unusual association of thirty different kinds of microbes.

Article citation:
"Sex, Death and Kefir," Scientific American, August 1994, p. 96.



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