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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScientists create toe, belly button cheese from human bacteria
Cheese is known for its stinky odor. But, cheeses at one exhibit at the Science Gallery Dublin in Trinity College Dublin come from an especially smelly source -- human toe, armpit, belly button and mouth bacteria.
Selfmade, which is part of the Grow Your Own Life After Nature exhibition, features different microbial sketches of cheeses created with bacteria samples from various people. Each cheese supposedly smells similar to the donors body odor.
The team took different microbial strains from the subjects. Next, they identified microbes that made up that persons specific scent using a method known as headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis, which can find volatile organic compounds in a sample.
Then, the cheese making process began. Milk was added to the microbe sample, and spoiled with a bacteria called Lactobacillus. When the sample curdled, the team separated the clumps and aged them with yeast to make different varieties of cheese.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-create-toe-belly-button-cheese-from-human-bacteria/
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Scientists create toe, belly button cheese from human bacteria (Original Post)
Katashi_itto
Jan 2014
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)1. Eww.
I was thinking of making a grilled cheese sandwich, but I've changed my mind.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)2. Lol!!
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)3. Fromunda cheese...
check it out.....phew.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)4. This takes care of that "velveeta shortage"
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)5. LOL....
There you go!!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)6. "Made with real toes!"
IT'S PEOPLE!!!
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)7. Ummmm....
Variant of soylent green..
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)8. Absolutely disgusting.
greyl
(22,990 posts)9. Not exactly water into wine. nt
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Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)11. One and one and one is three
Sorry, practically everything reminds me of a song these days.