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Collapsing pensions and civilisations

Unexpected Elements

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The Coolest Science in the World

Sudipa Harwala is a yeast geneticist with a passion for some tiny microbes. She says we can engineer microbes to affect different aspects of this grain which is growing in the field. Some yeast geneticists are very, very interested in industrial food production and trying to figure out how to modify yeast or select the yeasts for different beverages. Another side of industrial yeast genetics is using yeast to model human disease to help cure it.

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