Undiscovered yeast species could change our world

Yeasts have become a veritable “microbial workforce” in the biotech and health care industries, as Nicholas P. Money describes in his 2018 book The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization. Even Heineken recently released a “wild lager” made from a rare yeast discovered deep in Patagonia by microbiologist (and

Lachance collaborator) Diego Libkind. Lachance recounts discovering a yeast species endemic to the Great Lakes region in a patch of morning glories near his campus.

Source: thewalrus.ca