VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has been the first to publish a scientific study on the successful generation of hybrid lager yeasts. For centuries the same few yeast strains have been used in the production ...
Biotechnology
Mar 5, 2015
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The National Collection of Yeast Cultures at the Institute of Food Research has added the 4,000th yeast strain to its publicly-available collection.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2015
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Yeast are commonly used to transform corn and other plant materials into biofuels such as ethanol. However, large concentrations of ethanol can be toxic to yeast, which has limited the production capacity of many yeast strains ...
Biotechnology
Oct 2, 2014
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With a simple mutation, yeast can grow in higher than normal temperatures. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology demonstrate this in an article to be published in the scientific journal Science. The findings may ...
Biotechnology
Oct 2, 2014
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A chronic problem in winemaking is "stuck fermentation," when yeast that should be busily converting grape sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide prematurely shuts down, leaving the remaining sugar to instead be consumed by ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 28, 2014
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Queensland researchers are persuading baker's yeast to produce orange-flavoured renewable jet fuel from sugar.
Biotechnology
Jun 5, 2014
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Using next-generation sequencing, corresponding author Gianni Liti et. al. provide a detailed characterization of the genetic variation present within the baker's yeast species.
Biotechnology
Jan 21, 2014
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Yeasts are one of the earliest, if not the earliest, biological tools used by people. The earliest known written words in human history document recipes for making bread and beer, both of which are made using yeast, as well ...
Biotechnology
Nov 27, 2013
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The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a prime organism for studying fundamental cellular processes, with the functions of many proteins important in the cell cycle and signaling networks found in human biology having ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 17, 2013
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A significant portion of the petroleum consumed by the transport sector must be replaced in the long term by renewable energy. Therefore, it is of the utmost economic and ecological importance to optimise the production of ...
Biotechnology
Aug 29, 2013
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