Author: charlie

How to make your original yeast water Culturing yeast off of raisins, using the raisins as sugar source. Indeed, sima, a lightly fermented spring drink from Fin...

MIT snags UCSF synthetic biology expert Chris Voigt | San Francisco Business Times "One of UCSF’s brightest young scientists and a key member of the Bay Ar...

IBM's Most Disruptive Acquisition Of 2010 Is Netezza — InformationWeek "I've pulled out from Baum's comments a range of timely ideas t...

The Mad Fermentationist: Bohemian Ale (Czech Pilsner Fail) The odd thing is that I too had my smack-pack liquid yeast not really take in my boho pils. Panicked ...

Microbes I have known and loved: anti-mega Excellent overview of all the ways we use microbes (useful bugs!) in the production of food. I learned that cacao is ...

We Make Getting Fit Easier | Koko FitClub A personalized computerized fitness center, with visual guidance, and a hat tip towards quantified self nuts. Haven�...

The Staph Bug's Achilles' Heel – ScienceNOW "The researchers found 14 that did the trick, but one molecule—named RNPA1000—was especially ef...

Q Microbe – Biomass to Cellulosic Ethanol Conversion – High Yield, Low Cost "A natural biorefinery in itself, the Q microbe, Clostridium phytof...

University of Minnesota Biofuels Database 1.16.0 Another one. (tags: biochemistry enzymes pathways science biology biofuels database) University of Minnesota Bi...