yeast
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Behind the bar, yeast busily converted sugars into alcohol inside giant stainless steel fermentation tanks.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Jayasekara engineered yeast strains capable of producing additional food ingredients.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Prof. Roche said the findings show for the first time that consuming yeast beta-glucan in the diet is enough to trigger trained immunity by altering bone marrow stem cells.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The researchers wanted to determine whether consuming yeast beta-glucan could produce a form of lasting immune training by changing early immune cells in the bone marrow.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
I found a recipe that gave instructions for gathering wild yeast, in a process that took several days but didn’t sound too difficult.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
Their analysis showed that yeasts from the genus Kazachstania were consistently the most common across all starters.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2026
But it turns out this chemical process, in which bacteria, molds or yeasts break down sugar to create simpler compounds, could help alleviate the mounting crisis of food waste.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 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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