While the newly-generated variety of brewing yeast cooked up by boffins at the RIKEN Nishina centre for Accelerator-Based Science doesn’t shoot laser beams or gain super-strength when you piss it off, it does apparently make a very tasty rice wine.
Ever found yourself cooking up some of your home-brew, only to realise that your yeast isn’t playing ball? Panic no more, because cyborg yeast can switch itself on.
