Researchers at Oxford and collaborators engineered yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, creating a nutritionally complete bee supplement that

Researchers 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?