Biology · Health

12 Key Digestive Enzymes present in Human Digestive System.

The digestive enzymes work tirelessly, breaking down our meals into nutrients, fueling our body, and maintaining our overall health. They're the invisible workforce, ensuring that whatever you eat is efficiently processed and utilized. The significance of these enzymes is often overlooked, but without them, our body's ability to absorb nutrients would be severely compromised. Join me as I explore the vital role these digestive enzymes play and discover how they contribute to the remarkable machinery that is your digestive system.

Industry · Microbes

11 Everyday Products that are derived from Microbes.

Microbes significantly contribute to creating everyday products we use. They play a key role in brewing beverages like beers, wines and spirits, and in the production of antibiotics, enzymes, vitamins, biofuels, amino acids, and single cell proteins. Additionally, microbes are fundamental in creating steroids, vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs like cyclosporin A and statins. This diverse range of uses makes microbes the unsung heroes of our everyday life.

Tech

11 Methods of Food Preservation used by Food Industry

With the beginning of civilisations and human settlements, the need to preserve excess foods became essential for survival. Since then, many traditional and household practices have evolved to limit food spoilage. Such as cooking, the addition of spices and fermentation. In modern commercial food production, spoilage and contamination are preserved by a variety of methods such as Filtration, Lyophilisation, Refrigeration, Pasteurisation, Canned Food, Vaccum packing, Irradiation, Food preservatives etc.

Health

What are Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases?

Fifty years ago people believed that the war of humankind against infectious diseases was virtually over. They thought that science had won over diseases such as pneumonia, whooping cough, polio, and smallpox with the help of antibiotics, vaccines, and some aggressive public health campaigns. But, after the 1980s, emerging and re-emerging diseases have caused havoc. In… Continue reading What are Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases?

Health

11 Things Parents should know about giving Antibiotics.

Antibiotics have been around for many years and if your baby is 3 years or few months old then it is evident that you may get confronted with antibiotics 4 to 5 times in a year and may have fears and doubts about antibiotics. Moreover, many of you may have a habit of taking antibiotics on an… Continue reading 11 Things Parents should know about giving Antibiotics.