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Taking the stress off yeast produces better wine

Turning grape juice into wine is a stressful business for yeasts. Dr Agustin Aranda from the University of Valencia, Spain has identified the genes in yeast that enable it to respond to stress and is investigating ways to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Microbiotas characterized for 19 traditional Italian sourdough breads

Italy is well-known for aesthetics that play to every sense of the human sensory system: automotive style, espresso, ancient architecture, music, and Fettuccini Alfredo, among much else. Now a team of Italian investigators ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Old recipe making a come back

Humans ate sourdough bread in ancient times and it's remained a traditional part of the diets in some countries and regions. Now Baltic scientists have reinvented this centuries-old technique for the needs of the food industry ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New findings about unwanted fungal growth on dry-cured meat products

The growth of yeast and mold fungus often poses a threat to the quality of dry-cured meat and is a problem facing producers all over the world. Fungal growth can lead to bad quality products, increased production ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Students coax yeast cells to add vitamins to bread

Any way you slice it, bread that contains critical nutrients could help combat severe malnutrition in impoverished regions. That is the goal of a group of Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students who ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Synthetic' chromosome permits repid, on-demand 'evolution' of yeast

In the quest to understand genomes -- how they're built, how they're organized and what makes them work -- a team of Johns Hopkins researchers has engineered from scratch a computer-designed yeast chromosome ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

New bacteria strain points the way toward 'super sourdough' bread

What better venue than San Francisco -- sourdough capital of the world -- to unveil a new natural sourdough ingredient that could replace conventional additives in a variety of other breads, while making them ...

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created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

California Wine: Complex and Smooth With Hints of Salmon

What does it take to make a fine California wine? Grapes, water, sunshine, the skilled hand of a master vintner -- and a few thousand dead fish. A few thousand dead chinook salmon, that is, according to new ...

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created Aug 04, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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