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The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections 3,000 years ago. They started using fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses.
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Schwann concluded that fermintaion is the result of living things.
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French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentaion is caused by yeast.
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Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells.
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Harden and Euler-Chelpin won the Nobel prize for determining exactly how enzymes cause fermentation.
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Technology was developed to use fermentation to make antibiotics.
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Today fermentation is used to produce medicines , and alcoholic beverages. It is als used to make bread rise.
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The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages dated all the way back to 8000 B.C.