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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2025 5:31 p.m. PST

"Despite the long history of consumption of fermented dairy, little is known about how the fermented microbes were utilized and evolved over human history. By retrieving ancient DNA of 3,500-year-old kefir cheese from Xinjiang, China, Dr. Qiaomei Fu from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and colleagues explored past human-microbial interactions. Although it was previously suggested that kefir was spread from the Northern Caucasus to Europe and other regions, the researchers found an additional spreading route of kefir from Xinjiang to inland East Asia…"


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