Genes behind lager yeast's cold- and sugar-loving success revealed
Lager beer is cold, crisp, dry—and worth about half a trillion dollars worldwide.
Plants & Animals
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News tagged with yeast strain
New method knocks out yeast genes with single-point precision
How do you make yeast work harder? Not to make bread, but in processes that yield chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Industries currently use a yeast called Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They'd like it to work better. The answer ...
Biotechnology
Jan 14, 2019
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Scientists identify gene cluster in budding yeasts with major implications for renewable energy
Yeasts are complex organisms that may become the workhorses of biofuel production. To move yeasts into this larger role, scientists need to understand the genetic machinery that leads to the production of complex molecules ...
Biotechnology
Jan 10, 2019
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Seawater breakthrough in production of climate-friendly fuel bioethanol cuts demands on freshwater
In the fight against global warming, bioethanol fuel is seen as a climate-friendly alternative to petrol and its adoption has been encouraged by many governments. But producing it requires huge amounts of freshwater – a ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 5, 2018
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Researchers discover mechanism underlying activity of proteins associated with cancer and autism
An international team of researchers has determined the function of a new family of proteins associated with cancer and autism. The results have been published in Molecular Cell.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2018
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Yeast still grow—but can't always breed—when their sixteen chromosomes are fused into two
Baker's yeast survive and grow after a drastic reorganization, not of their genes, but of the chromosome superstructures that house, protect and control access to their DNA code, a study just published in Nature finds.
Biotechnology
Aug 1, 2018
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Team makes breakthrough in synthetic genome rearrangement
A synthetic biology team at Tianjin University (TJU) has reported new methods and strategies for genome rearrangement and accelerated the evolution of yeast strains with their three latest studies published in Nature Communications ...
Biotechnology
May 24, 2018
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New CRISPR technology 'knocks out' yeast genes with single-point precision
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has given researchers the power to precisely edit selected genes. Now, researchers have used it to develop a technology that can target any gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and turn it off ...
Biotechnology
May 7, 2018
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Researchers engineer yeast to manufacture complex medicine
Stanford University bioengineers have figured out a way to make noscapine, a non-narcotic cough suppressant that occurs naturally in opium poppies, in brewer's yeast.
Biotechnology
Apr 2, 2018
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Engineering yeast tolerance to a promising biomass deconstruction solvent
To convert plant matter to fuel and other sustainable bioproducts, it must first be broken into digestible sugars for microbes. Gamma-valerolactone (GVL) is a promising chemical solvent for biomass degradation. However, it ...
Biotechnology
Mar 20, 2018
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