We have finished collecting your sourdoughs!
In September 2023, we launched the HealthFerm citizen science project. We received a phenomenal number of responses, and over the following months began to reach out to many of you to ask if you would...
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“Change must be enjoyable and a positive experience overall” Interview with Prof. Armando Perez-Cueto, PhD, from the HealthFerm project
HealthFerm is organized into different work packages. Yours is the one about consumer acceptance. Can you tell me something about your work and what your specific role within the whole project is?
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How do we get the microorganisms from your sourdough samples?
There are a lot of microscopically small organisms in sourdough. Knowing which ones tells us a lot about the characteristics of the sourdough, as each microbial species exhibits a particular, characte...
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Say hello to this month’s workhorse at ETH: the KingFisher
Dear HealthFerm Citizen Scientists, hello world!
Let me introduce you to one of my favorite collegues in the wetlab: the KingFisher. It’s not a bird and doesn’t even have hands. It’s a robot! The Ki...
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The HealthFerm sourdough community is growing!
Over the past weeks, we have been receiving many new registrations from sourdough enthusiasts from all over Europe, motivated to become part of our HealthFerm project. The HealthFerm Citizen Science c...
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