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09/19/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The medicinal benefits of cordyceps mushroom can be enhanced with lactic acid bacteria

Since ancient times, cordyceps mushroom has been widely used as a traditional medicine that assists the immune system in fighting off disease and infection. Korean researchers were recently able to further empower the immune activity of the traditional medicine by using lactic acid bacteria to ferment the mushrooms. The resulting probiotic product is even more […]

06/13/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

The antimicrobial properties of essential oils found to be effective against drug-resistant Candida

As antifungal drug resistance grows increasingly common, a number of scientists have turned to plant-derived essential oils for a solution. To that end, researchers from the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) have developed a new screening method to identify the antimicrobial qualities of these volatile substances. They dubbed their method the vapor-phase-mediated susceptibility (VMS) assay, which […]

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