Students Coax Yeast Cells To Add Vitamins To Bread
Any way you slice it, bread that contains critical nutrients could help combat severe malnutrition in impoverished regions. That is the goal of a group of Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students who are using synthetic biology to enhance common yeast so that it yields beta carotene, the orange substance that gives carrots their color. When it’s eaten, beta-carotene turns into vitamin A…
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Students Coax Yeast Cells To Add Vitamins To Bread
October 26, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: color, contains-critical, enhance-common, gives-carrots, goal, help-combat, johns, johns-hopkins, nutrition / diet, orange, the-goal, the-orange, university