The rise of yeast : how the sugar fungus shaped civilization / Nicholas P. Money.

  • Money, Nicholas P.
Date:
[2018]
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Humans knew what yeast did long before they knew what it was. It was not until Louis Pasteur's experiments in the 1860s that scientists even acknowledged its classification as a fungus. A compelling blend of science, history, and sociology The Rise of Yeast explores the rich, strange, and utterly symbiotic relationship between people and yeast.

Publication/Creation

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Physical description

xi, 210 pages ; 22 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Yeasty basics -- Yeast of Eden: drink -- The dough also rises: food -- Frankenyeast: cells -- The little yeast on the prairie: biotechnology -- Yeasts of the wild: yeast diversity -- Yeasts of wrath: health and disease.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780190270711
  • 0190270713