Collaborate Disseminate
This particular story on researchers successfully making yeast-free pizza dough has been making the rounds. As usual with stories written from a scientific angle, it’s worth digging into the details …read more Continue reading Who Needs Yeast When You Have Lab Equipment?
While non-alcoholic beer has some obvious advantages over its traditional counterpart, many people say that it just doesn’t taste as good. Danish scientists now claim to have overcome that problem, using genetically engineered baker’s yeast.Continue Re… Continue reading Engineered yeast could improve the flavor of non-alcoholic beer
When you’ve got a diabetic in your life, there are few moments in any day that are free from thoughts about insulin. Insulin is literally the first coherent thought I …read more Continue reading Open-Source Insulin: Biohackers Aiming for Distributed Production
The CRISPR gene-editing tool has been successfully used in space for the first time. Researchers onboard the International Space Station have edited colonies of yeast to study how they repair DNA damage, which could be the first steps towards finding w… Continue reading CRISPR gene-editing tested in space for first time in DNA damage study
Although women in First World countries are routinely diagnosed with and treated for vaginal yeast infections, doing so isn’t always possible for their counterparts in impoverished nations. New fungus-detecting hygiene products, however, could make thi… Continue reading “Smart” tampons and pads could detect yeast infections
Companies spend thousands developing a project for the market, hoping their investment will return big. Investing like this happens every day and won’t shock anyone. What may surprise you is someone who spends more than a decade and thousands of their own dollars to make an open-source version of a …read more
Continue reading Spider Silk, Spider Silk, Made Using a Strain of Yeast
No matter how tough we think life is, it continually outdoes expectations. Now a new study from MIT has found that E. coli and yeast can survive in an atmosphere made up of 100 percent hydrogen. And that could have fascinating implications for life on … Continue reading Surprising study finds microbes can survive in all-hydrogen atmosphere
With psilocybin on the cusp of becoming a clinically validated and approved medicine, scientists are exploring new ways to produce the chemical without needing to grow magic mushrooms or relying on costly synthesis techniques. A team of Danish research… Continue reading Scientists turn yeast into psychedelic psilocybin factories
In the recent frenzy of stocking up with provisions as the populace prepare for their COVID-19 lockdown, there have been some widely-publicised examples of products that have become scarce commodities. Toilet paper, pasta, rice, tinned vegetables, and long-life milk are the ones that come to mind, but there’s another one …read more
Continue reading Yeast is a Hot Commodity; Brewing and Breadmaking During Lockdown
Doctors at the University of Pittsburgh are reporting a bizarre case of a woman who urinates alcohol. The medical mystery confounded scientists when the woman showed none of the other regular signs of excessive alcohol consumption, leading them to conc… Continue reading Unique bladder-brewery condition causes woman to pee alcohol