Sipping a cactus fruit: a meditation on culture, biology, and yeast

This is a brief story on how an almost forgotten cactus wine taught me that microbes have better memories than people. When I started my PhD at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico, I thought I could take on the whole world in a sip. I signed up for every seminar, every… The post Sipping a cactus fruit: a meditation on culture, biology, and yeast appeared first on…