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Eduard Buchner: in 1897 he published his paper, Über alkoholische Gärung ohne Hefezellen (On alcoholic fermentation without yeast cells), which demonstrated that fermentation can occur with an extract of yeast in the absence of intact yeast cells.
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1936: Unit 731, a biological-warfare unit disguised as a water-purification unit, is formed. Shiro Ishii, a physician and army officer who was intrigued by germ warfare, builds huge compound - more than 150 buildings over six square kilometers - outside the city of Harbin. Some 9,000 test subjects, which Ishii and his peers called ''logs,'' eventually die at the compound. Read more
The Andromeda Strain (1971): directed by Robert Wise and starring Arthur Hill, David Wayne and James Olson. A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread. Source: IMDb
2 and a half: the age at which the first cloned mouse, Cumulina, died in May 2000. This is six months older than the average for her species.
YAC (yeast artificial chromosome): used by scientists to borrow the DNA duplication machinery of cells, including human cells. They enable them to isolate and study large portions of the genetic endowment of organisms whose chromosomes are big and complex, such as those of humans.
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Germ by the Subhumans
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Basic Yeast Dough
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Doublet: take two related words that have the same number of letters and convert the first into the second through a series of one letter changes, each of which must form another word. Proper names are not allowed, and all the words used must appear in the Cambridge Dictionaries Online. Turn SHEEP into DOLLY in 24 changes. Go
Germ Warfare: Breakthroughs in Immunology by Alan G Baxter
“Baxter brings alive the oral histories of immunology, the most important of the medical sciences." Read more
4000 BC: the Egyptians discovered how to bake leavened bread using yeast. Other fermentation processes were established in the ancient world, notably in China. The preservation of milk by lactic acid bacteria resulted in yoghurt. Moulds were used to produce cheese, and vinegar and wine were manufactured by fermentation. Read more
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