Better understanding microorganisms will be key to food safety solutions over the coming decades — both in terms of identifying ways to combat harmful foreign microorganisms found along value chains but also by better understanding the communities of microorganisms that naturally occur within fresh produce and the beneficial role they play. (csiro.au)
This has always lead me to believe that the kefir culture may still maintain its original colony of bacteria and yeasts, but it has been joined by another foreign microorganism that isn't so desirable and those kefir grains sometimes never recover from this imbalance. (nourishingdays.com)
The team analyzed red blood cells from PNH patients for C3 fragments and examined how C3 - derived opsonins (molecules that bind to foreign microorganisms or cells making them more susceptible to phagocytosis) interacted with CR3 receptors. (pennmedicine.org)