This article was originally published on Flowertown, and appears here with permission. If fire came first, yeast came second. Yes, yeast. You know, the fungi used to harvest energy from sugar without ...

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Researchers have created a bioengineered yeast that can grow efficiently on a wide range of sugars from agricultural waste biomass, closing a carbon cycle for the biosynthesis of fuels, ...