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Modified Yeast Adds Vitamins to Bread

Any way you slice it, bread that contains critical nutrients could help combat severe malnutrition in impoverished regions. That is the goal of a group of Johns Hopkins Univ. undergraduate students who are using synthetic biology to enhance common yeast so that it yields beta carotene, the orange substance that gives carrots their color. When it’s eaten, beta-carotene turns into vitamin A.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Modified-Yeast-Adds-Vitamins-to-Bread-102411.aspx

excellent study!  this could be great for aid to impoverished areas :)

It was unfortunate that the team didn’t eat the bread.