Synthetic yeast could make beer cheaper and stronger

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Synthetic yeast could make beer cheaper and stronger - Telegraph

British researchers are helping to create “designer” genomes that can be inserted into yeast cells to create new strains of these organisms.

They hope these man-made forms of life could eventually be used by the brewing industry to make cheaper - and stronger - beer.

The international project adds to work to create the first ever synthetic life form, by building a bacterium genome from scratch.

Researchers, who have been awarded £1 million of government funding for the project, will first attempt to recreate a slimmed down version of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast used in the brewing industry to ferment beer.

It will be the first time a genome has been built from scratch for a eukaryotic organism, the branch of the evolutionary tree that includes plants and animals.
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The scientists then aim to redesign parts of the yeast genome so that it can perform functions that are not possible naturally.
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