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yeast

[yeest] / jist /
NOUN
leaven
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NOUN
foam
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NOUN
rising agent
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Kennedy flakes the cooled salmon into a metal bowl while Gruel adds an egg, panko, Dijon mustard, chopped red onion, chives, nutritional yeast and avocado-oil mayonnaise.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

Once researchers solve a pathway, they can transfer the genetic instructions for building a compound into an engineered host, such as yeast.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

The fermentation process creates its own heat as the yeast activates, which Heineken also captures to reuse elsewhere in its beer production, such as to preheat water.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Perhaps the best-known examples of fermentation are in baking and brewing, where yeast breaks down sugar into ethanol and carbon dioxide.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

She sifted flour, mixed it with water, salt, and yeast, and pounded it together.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

The scientists discovered four different yeasts that can survive sub-zero temperatures in Oetzi's guts, skin and "brownish" water that melted off his body when he was partially unfrozen.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

"We observed that sourdoughs develop into stable microbial ecosystems, with lactic acid bacteria and yeasts in a complex balance," he says.

From Science Daily Mar. 16, 2026

By tapping into the natural genetic diversity of wild yeasts, we can create innovative products that meet consumers' ever-evolving taste.

From Salon Sep. 4, 2024

“My kind of first feeling here is that there are unsurveyed environments in China where these yeasts dwell, and that these two patients have been unlucky enough to be exposed.”

From Science Magazine Jun. 19, 2024

It called the research “horrendous” and said the researchers should leave humans alone and “go back to their yeasts and fungi.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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