Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees - Nature Genetic engineering of a yeast strain provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybee colonies.

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"genetically #engineered a strain of the oleaginous #yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce a mixture of essential sterols for #bees"

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#honey #bee #essential #sterols #yeast

Chemical evidence supports sponges as Earth’s earliest animals

MIT researchers detected C30 and C31 steranes—chemical fingerprints of modern demosponges—in Marinoan-age rocks from Oman, supporting sponges as Earth’s earliest animals. Read more: getnews.me/chemical-evidence-suppor... #sponges #sterols #mit

Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees - Nature Genetic engineering of a yeast strain provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybee colonies.

Optimised #honeybee diet using engineered yeast: promising solution against honeybee colony decline due to pollen starvation ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#geneticengineering #sterols #bioengineering

Scientists make 'superfood' that could save honeybees We rely on honeybees to pollinate our crops and a new food could protect them from growing threats.

Good news 👏👏👏😁:

A team of scientists lead by Prof. G. #Wright has developed a #honeybee "superfood" that could protect the bees against the threats of climate change and habitat loss.

It took 15 years to identify which exact #sterols bees need and how to engineer them.

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Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees - Nature Genetic engineering of a yeast strain provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybee colonies.

Various #stress factors limit the diet of #honeybees🐝

An innovative solution: incorporating a genetically modified strain of #yeast, which produces a blend of essential #sterols, optimizes the #health of the colony🐝

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Saving bees with ‘superfoods’: new engineered supplement found to A new study led by the University of Oxford could provide a cost-effective and sustainable solution to help tackle the devastating decline in honeybees. An engineered food supplement, designed to

Press release for our @nature.com paper on the importance of #sterols in the diet of honeybees is here - the piece provides details on the yeast engineering & bioassays. The work was the research of my brilliant PhD student Elynor Moore www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...

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If I had #HighCholesterol I would use zero-fat plain yogurt and add #sterols because this plant-based substance can help lower cholesterol by mimicking cholesterol. The body then excretes some dietary cholesterol. Dietary cholesterol does however not majorly contribute to cholesterol levels.

Research Says These Are the Best Foods to Lower Cholesterol Naturally A plant-based diet can naturally lower cholesterol and support heart health. These plant-based foods are best to reduce LDL cholesterol, according to research.

#Plant-based diets can significantly lower #cholesterol levels, with studies showing reductions in #LDL by up to 30%, comparable to #statin #medications. Cholesterol-lowering properties like #fiber, plant #sterols and #polyunsaturated fats seem to play key roles. vegnews.com/best-foods-t...