Stearic acid, formally octadecanoic acid, is a fatty acid that is present as a component of triglyceride esters in many natural sources. It occurs most widely in animal fats and products made from ...

Sweet relief: a candy hardener, a soap-foamer and a stopgap wine ingredient can soothe your pain. Every month Wired's chemist Dr Bibiana Campos Seijo deconstructs an everyday product. She is the ...

During the study, a total of 20 biofilm-producing isolates of MRSA, recovered from different food commodities, have been studied. For isolation and identification of S. aureus, growth was monitored on ...