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. • Fungus

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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:

   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.

2. Julianna Schantz-Dunn:

   If you randomly self-treat and it’s not a yeast infection, you can make the problem worse.

3. George Goehl:

   You are an organizer. You bring not bread, but yeast. You are here to agitate and inspire more people to ask hard questions, to uncover hidden truths, to realize their power, and to do all of this with lots of other people. What an amazing thing.

4. Christina Smolke:

   What we've done here is we've put in synthetic DNA, which encodes new directions in the yeast cells.

5. 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.