Humans have taken advantage of the metabolism in a tiny fungus called yeast to create beer and wine from grains and fruits. What are the biological mechanisms behind this alcohol production? Aa Aa Aa ...

Is it possible to brew beer on the moon? A group of engineering students from the University of California, San Diego wants to find out the feasibility of brewing the world's most widely consumed ...

Yeast may be essential to producing ethanol through fermentation, but for years, biofuel production has been constrained by the fact that heat and ethanol itself can be deadly or damaging to yeast at ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered a novel method to increase ethanol production from plant sugars through yeast fermentation. The approach, published in Nature ...

Brief description of project: This past Fall 2016, Principles of Fermentation, CHM/CPD/MBI 436A (three credits), was offered for the first time. It was team taught by Luis Actis (MBI), Jason Berberich ...

Researchers have used a combination of light and genetic engineering to controlling the metabolism, or basic chemical process, of a living cell. Building on techniques that already have transformed ...

Scientists have recently learned how to use light to control specific groups of neurons to better understand the operation of the brain, a development that has transformed areas of neuroscience.