Brewer's Yeast Has A Social Life And It Can Teach Us A Lot About Evolution
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 14:07
in Biology & Nature
As any good beer brewer knows, the yeast used in fermentation stick together in large clumps consisting of thousands of cells that settle out where they are easily removed. Brewers had even traced this behavior to a gene that encodes a sticky protein that sits on the surface of yeast cells. read more
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