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The UC Berkeley lab that was in the news a year or so ago for creating a yeast strain that makes its own hop flavors has commercialized it. The company is apparently called Berkeley Brewing Science and the yeast is already being used in a few California microbreweries. I have always thought...

www.impossiblefoods.com Basically they use a yeast to make a burger patty that looks and tastes just like real meat but is in fact vegetarian. It tastes so much like meat because they include a hemoglobin that is derived from soy. The hemoglobin they use is cloned from soy into yeast (pichia...

Typically freezing something living kills it. The reason is that ice crystals break the cell walls that are critical for life. Back in undergrad, I did quite a bit of research in a biochem lab. We didn't work with yeast, but we did use quite a lot of E. coli containing various genes we wanted...