They realized that polysaccharide-degrading enzymes could serve the purpose and that a cow's gut was the ideal place to look for them. The bovine gut harbors microbial enzymes that digest ...

Paulo de Meo Filho, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), is part of an ambitious experiment to develop a pill to transform cow gut bacteria. They hope to ...

The remarkable algae contains compounds that inhibit the activity of methane-making microbes in cow guts, and for years it has been showing striking results on cattle farms around the world ...