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A new methodology that makes it possible to know what physiological state the yeast is in at each point in the wine fermentation process has been developed. “By drawing an analogy with cinema,” he ...

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Rubén Martínez, a graduate in Biology and Biochemistry, has developed a new methodology that makes it possible to know what physiological state the yeast is in at each point in the wine fermentation ...

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