Genes behind lager yeast's cold- and sugar-loving success revealed
Lager beer is cold, crisp, dry—and worth about half a trillion dollars worldwide.
Lager beer is cold, crisp, dry—and worth about half a trillion dollars worldwide.
Plants & Animals
Jan 30, 2019
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Researchers at the University of Manchester have discovered a new species of yeast that could help brewers create better lager.
Biotechnology
Jul 5, 2017
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Humans have used Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast in baking, brewing and winemaking for millennia. New research from the University of Idaho and the University of Colorado Boulder reveals another way that yeast species can ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 6, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the goal to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, scientists are looking for alternative methods to produce plastics that are based on renewable oils. In a new study, scientists have developed a method ...
A potentially pathogenic fungus has found a home living in extreme conditions in some of the most common household appliances, researchers have found. A new paper published in the British Mycological Society journal, Fungal ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 20, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last several weeks, we've read a bit about how Google is getting restless just being the world’s largest search engine and a proud cloud computing parent. In fact, Googleland is growing by quantum ...
In the fight against global warming, bioethanol fuel is seen as a climate-friendly alternative to petrol and its adoption has been encouraged by many governments. But producing it requires huge amounts of freshwater – a ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 5, 2018
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Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a "super strain" of yeast that can efficiently ferment ethanol from pretreated pine -- one of the most common species of trees in Georgia and the U.S. Their research ...
Biotechnology
Nov 18, 2011
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Gerard Liger-Belair lives in a bubble, and he doesn't care who knows it. Bubbles are his passion. And they have given the 41-year-old French scientist arguably the best job in all of physics.
General Physics
Sep 18, 2012
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For nearly 150 years, lichens have been the model organisms of symbiosis. Now researchers have uncovered an unexpected third partner embedded in the lichen cortex or "skin" - yeast.
Biotechnology
Jul 21, 2016
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