The Center for Beverage Innovation and Lafontaine Lab, including U of A researchers, evaluated 11 commercially available yeasts to identify their strengths based on chemical analysis and sensory panel ...

Just how does grape juice become wine anyway? In today's edition of Ask The Expert we examine the core process behind the ...

The owner of a Long Island brewery used his scuba diving skills to recover yeast from an 1886 shipwreck and make it part of ...

Small organisms can have a big impact, and researchers have explored nearly a dozen nontraditional yeast strains to determine ...

In Africa, fermented foods hold great cultural significance and health benefits, yet have not been thoroughly researched.

A study by researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center published in Nature revises the standard story about transcription factors ...

Fungal infections occur when yeast that naturally lives in the body overgrows. A person with diabetes has a higher risk of a fungal infection, and diabetes can make treatment more challenging.

Agricultural genetics is the applied study of the effects of genetic variation and selection used to propagate valuable heritable trait combinations in crop plants and farm animals. The discipline ...

Apr. 10, 2025 — A seminal study has uncovered a new genetic cause of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The discovery offers both closure and hope to potentially thousands of families ...

Apr. 10, 2025 — Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become ...

Mindy Weisberger’s book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, explores the sophisticated—and macabre—relationships between zombifying parasites and their hosts.