• 啤酒进化史

    15-08-13 From Austrian monks to American craft brewers, beer geeks are everywhere. But making a good beer not only depends on the best ingredients, but also the best yeast. The beer world is divided into ales and lagers. The original and highly versatile yea...

  • 提高生物燃料产量的新方法

    14-10-04 Yeast are commonly used to transform corn and other plant materials into biofuels such as ethanol. However, large concentrations of ethanol can be toxic to yeast, which has limited the production capacity of many yeast strains used in industry. Toxi...

  • 染色体重新排列对生物体的影响

    13-08-24 In a pioneer study published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature Communications, a research team at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Cincia (IGC; Portugal), led by Miguel Godinho Ferreira in collaboration with Isabel Gordo, show for the...

  • 同一座葡萄园 不同的细菌 不同的风味

    12-12-28 Choosing the perfect wine may soon involve more than just knowing the perfect vintage(葡萄收获期) and chateau(城堡,别墅) . Differences in the microbes present on grapes even in different parts of the same vineyard may contribute to flavor fluct...

  • 生物学家发现对染色体分离至关重要的蛋白质

    12-12-28 New York University biologists have identified how a vital(至关重要的) protein is loaded by others into the centromere(着丝粒) , the part of the chromosome that plays a significant role in cell division. Their findings shed new light on genome r...

  • 德克酵母菌对酿酒有重要作用

    12-06-05 The yeast Dekkera bruxellensis plays an important role in the production of wine, as it can have either a positive or a negative impact on the taste. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, among others, have analyzed the yeast's genome sequenced...

  • 小蛋白粒对酵母菌株的生存进化至关重要

    12-02-16 Prions(小蛋白粒) , the much-maligned proteins most commonly known for causing mad cow disease, are commonly used in yeast to produce beneficial traits in the wild. Moreover, such traits can be passed on to subsequent generations and eventually bec...

  • 各种酵母基因组之比较

    11-06-22 If you think yeast is most useful for beer and pizza crust(外壳,面包皮) , here's something else to chew on: a team of U.S. researchers has identified and compared the genetic codes for all known species of yeasts closely related to bakers' and br...

  • 新种酵母可使生物柴油更加高效

    10-08-20 A University of Illinois metabolic(变化的,新陈代谢的) engineer has taken the first step toward the more efficient and economical production of biofuels by developing a strain of yeast(酵母,泡沫) with increased alcohol tolerance. Biofuels are p...

  • 基因筛选有助致病菌的甄别

    09-11-27 Whitehead researchers have developed a new type of genetic screen for human cells to pinpoint specific genes and proteins used by pathogens(病原体), according to their paper in Science. In most human cell cultures genes are present in two copies:...