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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Duplicate copies of genes safeguard survival of the biotech yeast Pichia pastoris in environments where only methanol is present as feed. A recently elucidated metabolism is similar to that used by plants for the utilization ...
Biotechnology
Sep 24, 2015
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New method allows production of expensive grapefruit aroma Nootkatone biotechnologically from cheap sugar using a 'turbo-yeast.' The versatile, healthy and tasty substance is used in soft drinks, pharmaceutical products or ...
Biotechnology
Apr 15, 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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Baker's yeast is giving scientists a better understanding of drug interactions, which are a major cause of hospitalization and illness world-wide.
Biochemistry
Apr 24, 2014
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