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As early as 200 BC, the Chinese used fermented bean curd to treat skin infections, they also used fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses.
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Theodor Schwann concluded that fermentation was the result of living things
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Yeast causes fermentation. Louis Pasteur was influenced by the work of Theodor Schwann who developed the cell theory.
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Edward Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the cells themselves caused fermentation
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They won the Nobel prize for showing how enzymes caused fermentation.
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Fermentation was used to produce antibiotics.
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Fermentation is used to produce industrial chemicals, antibiotics, alcoholic beverages, make bread rise, and as a food preservative.