Dr. Anne A. Madden, the 2015 Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club (LFHCfS) Woman of the Year, is part of the team that made a beer-related breakthrough in the study and manipulation of yeast. Dr. Madden is pictured here (in a photo by Lauren Nichols), examining yeast cultures: Dr. Madden will make a special appearance next week in the Twenty Fifth 1st […]
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Red clay and blue gloves, in yeasty musical parody
Red clay and blue gloves have their day in this music video called “Some Budding Yeast I Used to Grow”. The perpetrators: Lydia Thé, Haomiao Huang, and Nathaniel Krefman of the UC-Berkeley’s Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. It’s a parody of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know”, which you can see below. The […]
Study: Smelly socks for malaria control
Cesar Sanchez of the TwistedBacteria blog alerts us to this new study, which was derived from the Ig Nobel Prize-winning work of Bart Knols and Ruurd de Jong (who showed that many malaria mosquitoes are attracted equally to the smell of human feet and the smell of limburger cheese): “Sugar-fermenting yeast as an organic source […]