Yeast. Great if you want to make bread or wine. Not so hot if it turns up as Candida albicans in large quantities in your body and makes you sick.
Biotechnology
Oct 19, 2016
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Without question, the domesticated hybrid yeast that gives us lager beer is an organism worth many billions of dollars.
Biotechnology
Jul 6, 2016
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When tiny microbes jam up like fans exiting a baseball stadium, they can do some real damage.
General Physics
May 13, 2016
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Yeast has been a friend to humanity since ancient times, when people first learned to harness the organism to make bread and brew beer.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 21, 2016
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About 500 years ago, the accidental natural hybridization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast responsible for things like ale, wine and bread, and a distant yeast cousin gave rise to lager beer.
Biotechnology
Dec 4, 2015
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Being a winemaker is a specialised calling, requiring intimate knowledge of soil composition, seasons and weather, chemistry, flavour, even marketing and sales.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 24, 2015
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Geometry and programmed cell death may have helped along the evolution of multicellular life, according to new research led by SFI Omidyar Fellow Eric Libby.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 22, 2014
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(Phys.org) —All but a few eukaryotes die without oxygen, and they respond dynamically to changes in the level of oxygen available to them. UCD scientists used genetic analysis to pinpoint an evolutionary switch in regulating ...
Biotechnology
Jan 19, 2014
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Baker's yeast is a popular test organism in biology. Yeasts are able to duplicate single chromosomes reversibly and thereby adapt flexibly to environmental conditions. Scientists from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 14, 2013
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(Phys.org)—A study of more than 6,000 genes in a common species of yeast has identified the pathways that govern the instability of GAA/TTC repeats. In humans, the expansions of these repeats is known to inactivate a gene ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 10, 2012
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