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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do ...

Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right, budding ...

An agar plate with yeast growing on is put under a microscope to allow scientists to see individual yeast cells. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

The photograph on the left shows fission yeast cells in their resting or G0 phase and the photograph on the right are of yeast cells in growth phase and undergoing cell division. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Microbes make a home among the starch grains of your sourdough starter. Daniel Veghte, CC BY-SA Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for thousands of years. The components of ...