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8000 B.C. yeast in China
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The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections 3,000 years ago, and they started using fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses as early as 220 B.C.
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Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things.
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French chemist Louis Pasteur detemined that fermentation is cause by yeast.
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He wins the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation.
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They won the Nobel prize for their work in 1929.
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Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics
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History of Fermentation