In budding yeast, the presence of glucose, a preferred energy source, suppresses the expression of respiration-related genes through a process known as glucose repression. Conversely, under glucose ...

Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it can also trace the footsteps of our ancestors. Humans domesticated ...

She was an excellent baker and knew the secret for a fabulous bread: scalded milk! Scalding milk changes the whey protein in it, making it a better food for yeast. This means that with a yeast-based ...

The benefits of brewer’s yeast (and its cousin, nutritional yeast) are mainly related to its very high content of B vitamins, which are essential to the body and nervous system. Specifically ...

Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutics Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Institute of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical ...

Jamie Adams dives to a shipwreck to find beer yeast that was used for brewing his Deep Ascent beer at his Long Island brewery. Unique stories accompany the early years of many craft breweries.