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Bee colonies grew 15-fold on diet supplemented diet with missing nutrients
- stevenjgarner 1y agoResearchers at Oxford and collaborators engineered yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, creating a nutritionally complete bee supplement that boosted colony reproduction up to 15-fold and could help reverse honeybee population decline. Can this synthetic sterol-enriched diet be successfully scaled and adopted in real-world beekeeping to not only improve colony survival but also reduce competition with wild pollinators and strengthen global food security?
- nom 1y agoYeast usually scales really well, I have high hopes.