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"We think that the fact that prions are sometimes beneficial and sometimes detrimental for the yeast is at the heart of their biology - that they present a sort of bet-hedging strategy, where in some circumstances it's good to be in the prion state and in some cases it's not," says Whitehead Member and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Susan Lindquist.— Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
The yeast, which is pasteurized so that it becomes inactive, incorporates selenium into its protein structure.— NutraIngredients-USA RSS
The first kind of yeast is the Primary Dried Yeast it is propagated on sugar substrates, it is dried at a high temperature so it killed the yeast cells inside, then sold to food industries.— CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
Another kind of yeast is Brewers Dried Yeast after the beer is fermented the yeast is also dried at a high temperature to kill the yeast cells then sold for food products.— CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
So when the yeast is added to cake or bread dough, one enzyme goes to work on the flour, changing the starch in it into sugar.

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