hist-brewing: Yeasts have two sexes??

[Robert Lowe]

That makes so much sense though!  I mean think about it.  Drink has 
resulted in a lot of sex among those who enjoy it.  So you have this 
process with millions of sexual encounters in its production leading to 
dozens of sexual encounters as a direct result.  Sometimes the universe 
seems to make sense, the rest of the time it's just as weird as ever.

-Bob

PBLoomis at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 8/19/02 9:56:03 AM Central Daylight Time, 
>inthenews at SIGMAXI.ORG writes:
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>> BIOTECH YEAST PROJECT EXPLORES MECHANICS OF SCHMOO
>> from The San Francisco Chronicle
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>> It's not much as sex shows go, but researchers at the Molecular Sciences
>> Institute must find it captivating.
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>> In their offices overlooking the downtown Berkeley BART station, they plan
>> to spend the next five years studying in mathematical detail the mating
>> rituals of yeast.
>> 
>> "Yeast comes in two sexes," said Roger Brent, president of the nonprofit
>> think-tank. They don't lead a very interesting life, he says, but sex is
>> one of the benefits.
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>> Using a newly announced $15.5 million grant from the Human Genome Project,
>> Brent will enlist 40 academic scientists, including UC Berkeley chemistry
>> Professor Julie Leary, in an effort that exemplifies the fundamental
>> premise of biotechnology.
>> <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
>> file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/19/BU141187.DTL>
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