Scientists baked sourdough bread using yeast from Otzi the Iceman's 5,000-year-old remains Otzi's body was found in the Alps near Italy-Austria border in 1991, preserved in ice Yeast isolated from ...
In a new study analyzing the microbiome of Ötzi the Iceman—arguably the most famous mummy ever discovered—scientists discovered four ancient cold-adapted yeast species. The researchers differentiated ...
When I first saw the press release announcing that scientists had harvested yeast from the remains of Ötzi the 5,000-year-old iceman and used it to make a sourdough bread, I admit I was not terribly ...