A new study published inPNAS Nexus suggests that baker’s yeast might be far more rugged than anyone expected. Known ...

As craft brewers go, Fred Lee has the look down. Long hair, bushy, forked beard and a vintage T-shirt. Lee’s business — Actual Brewing Co. — doesn’t quite fit the stereotype. For starters, its ...

A team of Indian researchers has discovered that baker’s yeast can survive extreme Martian-like conditions involving high-intensity shock waves and toxic perchlorate salts. Baker’s yeast ...

A team of scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker’s yeast for the first time. The human genes in question ...

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...

Yeast don’t have much of a social life; they’re single-celled fungi, after all. But yeast are, indeed, social. Social interaction among humans might center around protein shakes and discussion of ...

Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals ...

On weekends, Jim Withee jumps on his mountain bike and hits the trails in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Instead of a backpack full of PowerBars, he carries sterile containers and forceps. With gloved ...

ASHEVILLE - Sitting squarely in the Venn diagram of science and craft beer is White Labs, the San Diego-based yeast-production company that will open its Asheville outpost and start producing yeast ...

The latest brewery to start pouring beers in Carlsbad soft-opened March 18th. Wiseguy Brewing Co. is the work of Brett Gent, a longtime homebrewer who moved down from Costa Mesa to take advantage of ...

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