Finally some yeast news that aren't about baking or home brewing! #YeastGang
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
205 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
72320 readers
2676 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
But before the important part of the article, here's a 3-5 paragraph autobiography about how this recipe saved me and my grandmother's life from an inter-dimensional yeast thief.
That's an impressive feat, especially considering the complexity and differences of yeast DNA encoding compared to more researched bacteria.
Now please create one that’s designed to eat carbon dioxide and methane
It already exist and already in use.
There is specialized plastids that can use solar energy to turn co2 into a high resistant carbon based composite material that can be used to replace steel and concrete in construction. This composite is also an nicer and more durable alternative to all kind of plastics.
The process is called photosynthesis and the material is commonly known as "wood".
Dammit dad, you had me in the first quarter
But honestly, creating cells to create high quality carbon/graphene structures for computing, space elevator, sounds pretty interesting.
Boooo
Replacing cows with yeasts that produce whey and casein (the 2 proteins in milk) is already underway. That could go along way to reducing methane and carbon dioxide.
Imagindairy's milk and cheese products will actually be much healthier than milk that comes from animals, since it will not contain cholesterol, lactose, or somatic cells.
Oh ffs. Blood cholesterol is a red herring, more or less of the "dead fire fighters found at conflagration, let's blame them for it" type, additionally nutritional cholesterol has no impact on blood cholesterol. Lactose well your gut might not care for it but mine is totally fine with it and it's a sugar, it contributes massively to taste and aroma -- most lactose-free milk is produced by "pre-digesting" it by adding lactase making it sweeter as broken up lactose, glucose+galactose are, well, sweeter. If you just use saccharose instead or such you won't get actual milk taste. Not having random cow cells in there well why not if nothing else it's going to make things more shelf-stable.
Yeah I can’t see how this is supposed to replace milk, if it misses half of what makes it milk. I really like the idea of ethical dairy so if they could produce actual milk out of some bacteria I would buy that in a heartbeat. Just not some weird approximation.