On weekends, Jim Withee jumps on his mountain bike and hits the trails in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Instead of a backpack full of PowerBars, he carries sterile containers and forceps. With gloved ...

A team of scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker’s yeast for the first time. The human genes in question ...

Without yeast, there is no beer. But, beyond that, yeast has the potential to transform the world of beer, giving it more complex flavor profiles and unique regional differences. So say Rob Green and ...

The latest brewery to start pouring beers in Carlsbad soft-opened March 18th. Wiseguy Brewing Co. is the work of Brett Gent, a longtime homebrewer who moved down from Costa Mesa to take advantage of ...

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...

Yeast don’t have much of a social life; they’re single-celled fungi, after all. But yeast are, indeed, social. Social interaction among humans might center around protein shakes and discussion of ...

Kevin Verstrepen’s lab meetings can be pretty boozy affairs. Twice a week, several members of his group at Belgium’s University of Leuven and the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology gather around a ...

ASHEVILLE - Sitting squarely in the Venn diagram of science and craft beer is White Labs, the San Diego-based yeast-production company that will open its Asheville outpost and start producing yeast ...

The march toward “writing” a complex genome from scratch has taken another step forward, scientists announced on Thursday, with the synthesis of five more of the 16 chromosomes that make up the genome ...

White Labs, the big international yeast-making facility that is building on the edge of downtown Asheville, will include a brewery, a large tasting room and a small kitchen, owner and founder Chris ...