Synonyms for yeast
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1. yeast, barmnoun

   a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

   Synonyms:
   barm

2. yeastnoun

   any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

   Synonyms:
   barm

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1. yeastnoun

   Synonyms:
   barm, ferment, EMPTYINGS

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1. yeastnoun

   Synonyms:
   harm, leaven, ferment

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1. List of paraphrases for "yeast":

   yeasts, leaven

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1. Elizabeth Sattely:

   Producing plant-derived drugs in easy-to-grow plants or baker's yeast in many cases will be a much more efficient way to make these drugs, this is currently being done for artemisinin (a malaria drug derived from the sweet wormwood plant), and will likely be the way we make morphine (derived from poppies) in the future.

2. Christina Smolke:

   At home, you stick yeast at the bottom of a barrel, but in labs, everything is controlled in special vessels.

3. Robin Foroutan:

   We all have bacteria, yeasts and other types of microbes living in our digestive tracts and many strains of these actually provide a benefit — that's why fermented foods and probiotics are so healthy, but excessive sugar intake can throw off the balance leading to an overgrowth of normally occurring yeast and pathogenic bacteria. This can have a negative effect on our energy, skin, immune function, mood and many other consequences.

4. Elizabeth Sattely:

   We used these genes to engineer a wild relative of tobacco to make the drug precursor and think we could also use these genes to make the drug in other easy-to-grow organisms such as yeast.

5. Nir Barzilai:

   We’ve been successful to take models like snails, like yeast, like nematodes, like flies, like rats, like monkeys and to extend their healthy life span with either genetic manipulations or manipulations with the environment or with drugs, so we have proven the pre-concept here, again and again.