Red and brown algae are found only in saltwater and are also called seaweed. Did you know that algae of all four types have been a food source for people for at least 14,000 years? For example, the ...

Researchers are focusing on the edible red seaweed, Gracilaria parvispora ... Asia and the Pacific and is also a source of agar, a common thickening agent in Japanese cooking.

Waste due to excess packaging of the products we buy is a real problem. It is one that most of us are conscious of and more and more businesses are making efforts toward eco-friendly packaging.

(Victor de Schwanberg/Science Source) 7. Algae has probably found its way into your dessert, too. The gelatinous additives agar and carrageenan, produced from different species of red algae, thicken ...

The San Francisco-based start-up is making bacon from an unlikely source ... Algae is being used as a valuable ingredient to improve fake meat products, including the color pigments in red ...

Coralline red algae have ... as coralline red algae simply due to their age. The fossil record comprises all documented occurrences of fossils and is the essential source of information about ...

A group of designers from Japan have created a prototype design that could completely change the way we deal with product packaging. The design group, AMAM, calls their project Agar Plasticity ...

Compounds derived from marine red ... sources, such as flora and fauna, bacteria, fungi, and higher plants have great potential to fight diseases caused by viruses. Polysaccharides -- such as agar ...

As antibiotic-resistant bacteria become a growing threat and traditional sources of anti-microbial ... Perlmuter and Anat Shperberg Avni of BGN. Red algae. (credit: Wikimedia Commons ...