The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine ...

According to lore, Twinkies have multi-year shelf lives and remain edible for decades; this incredible longevity, rumor says, is due to Twinkies not actually being food but rather some strange ...

Plant cell wall components such as cellulose are abundant sources of carbohydrates that are widely used in biofuels and bioproducts; however, extraction of these components from plant biomass is ...

At 40, the world's oldest Twinkie still looks kind of edible A Maine high school teacher unwrapped the sweet treat during the Bicentennial, and it still hasn't decomposed.

With this edible craft, it's okay to play with your food! These Racing Bunny Twinkies Cars are not only adorable but easy for all ages to create.

While it’s hard to visualize what a commercial cell-based meat plant might look like as no player in this embryonic field is yet producing it at scale, delegates at a conference in San Francisco ...

So what actually happens to a Twinkie over time? And how long will the ones in your closet actually last now that they are no longer in production? Author Steve Ettlinger devoted an entire book to ...

Boise chefs, hunters and anglers are foraging for edible plants around the Treasure Valley and along the Greenbelt. You can find greens, berries, tubers and more natural ingredients.

This "bioreactor" is a concept design for a new kind of food production--where we just grow the nutritious cells, not the whole plant or animal.

A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has successfully used common plant proteins to 3D-print an edible cell culture scaffold, allowing more affordable and sustainable ...

In 1976, a US chemistry teacher unwrapped a Twinkie - a sponge cake snack - and put on top of the chalkboard in his classroom so his students could see how long it would take to decompose. Forty ...

A coffee machine pod-like system can synthesise food from packaged pods of plant cells. The system could let us make our own jam from weird and exotic plants ...