An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

We’ll drink to that! Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech have found a way to use recycled beer yeast to make water cleaner by removing lead, the schools announced ...

A virologist has taken to homebrewing a polynoravius vaccine to be ingested via yeast cells — in other words, a frothy pint of beer.

For thousands of years, humans have been using Saccharomyces cerevisiae or brewer’s yeast to make beer. In turn the yeast, considered humanity’s first domesticated organism, has journeyed around the ...

Nothing ruins a weekend session like realizing your beer is stale, but it’s an all-too-common problem. Now, researchers from Jiangnan University have found a way to keep beer fresher for longer, by ...

While non-alcoholic beer has some obvious advantages over its traditional counterpart, many people say that it just doesn't taste as good. Danish scientists now claim to have overcome that problem, ...

According to experts, this overlooked American brew might hold a secret superpower. It's a perfect match for your fiery Thai ...

The species of yeast known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae—often referred to as "brewer's yeast"—has been harnessed by humans since ancient times; with different strains used to make various types of ...

For a long part of humanity's history, beer was more than an after-work or weekend beverage. In many years and in many cultures, going back to at least the construction of the pyramids of Egypt, daily ...

Dinosaurs probably weren't chugging down beers, but that doesn't mean people can't sample the booze they might have imbibed had they known how to brew. Other than a time machine, there aren't exactly ...

Ice cold beer: In these dog days of summer, few things are better. So, let's raise a glass and toast Saccharomyces eubayanus, newly discovered yeast that helped make cold-fermented lager a runaway ...

Once upon a time, shortly after Europeans began sailing back and forth from the American continent, a little fungus also known as wild yeast found its way into the crypts of Bavarian beer-brewing ...