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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Social yeast cells prefer to work with close relatives to make our beer, bread and wine

Baker's yeast cells living together in communities help feed each other, but leave incomers from the same species to die from starvation, according to new research. The new research findings could be applied to industries that use yeast to produce biomolecules of interest and to help develop therapeutic strategies against pathogenic fungi.

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