A team of scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker’s yeast for the first time. The human genes in question ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Maine-based Mainiacal Yeast Labs — which according to their website specialize in providing “unique yeast and bacteria” to ...

During the day, Sena Rayos is a full-time student, working toward her doctorate. At night, her focus is beer. But her relationship with the sudsy concoction is all business. In May, she launched Alamo ...

As far as beer ingredients go, hops get all the glory, malt is having its moment, but yeast is the unsung hero of beer. Yeast is what makes beer beer. This little microorganism – part of the fungus ...

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...

Researchers have developed a more efficient platform for studying proteins that play a key role in regulating gene expression. The approach uses engineered yeast cells to produce enzyme and histone ...

SAN ANTONIO - By day, Sena Rayos is a full-time student, working toward her doctorate. At night, her focus is beer. But her relationship with the sudsy concoction is all business. In May, she launched ...

As the legend of kveik yeast spread among American brewers, few could believe what they were hearing. Virtually unheard of in the U.S. just five years ago, kveik — pronounced either with a hard “v” to ...

A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, published a study May 4 using baker’s yeast to evaluate the toxicity of lanthanides, a group of metals previously ...

ST. LOUIS — Yeast and bakery ingredient company AB Mauri North America has acquired Omega Yeast Labs LLC, described as a leader in the craft-brewing liquid yeast market. Financial terms of the ...

“Our motivation is to understand the first principles of genome fundamentals by building synthetic genomes,” says co-author and synthetic biologist Patrick Yizhi Cai (@caiyizhi) of the University of ...