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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Using CRISPR-Cas9, scientists engineered a yeast to produce the nutrient feed. Farmers could have it in two years.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The GOOD news is that yeast doesn't really respect property lines. Or quarantines. Or much of anything. That shit will spread organically easily enough. It will be a while, but now that the strain exists (and is being constantly refreshed with the corpro product) it should help all bees everywhere. Maybe bees will start farming it like ants do. Would be fun

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So does Monsanto with their GMO crops and they successfully sue farmers for having it, whose farms were invaded by it. I don't see it as good news when a company can't control their IP. They'll criminalize possession and use that to drive weak competitors out all together. These people are psychopaths.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Forgive me, it's not good news that a company has it. That's evil and they will destroy people lives. BUT the yeast exists now. When we die out because we are unimaginably stupid, that yeast is likely to live on and help the bees to do so as well. The bees i more worried about because they don't love heat

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 day ago

That's a lot easier to do with plants than single celled organisms.