What does Big Bend taste like? That’s one of the questions Rob Green and his wife and business partner, Mara Young, are answering at San Antonio’s Community Cultures Yeast Lab. There, they test and ...
Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for thousands of years. The components of creating a sourdough starter are very simple – flour and ...
On the fourth floor of Northwest Labs lives ye olde yeast colony, propagating for over 16 thousand generations. Neither a medieval fungus problem nor an ancient sourdough factory, the yeast has been ...
As a cell divides, its DNA -the genetic material- is duplicated and condensed into structures called chromosomes, which are carefully organized and distributed so that each daughter cell acquires a ...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...