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🗓️ 10 July 2018
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
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0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans, 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. |
0:38.8 | In general public, if you look at the broad numbers, |
0:41.9 | it's like 60% of vineyards around the world and the new world have been planted |
0:45.7 | with just five or six varieties of grapes in the last 10 or 20 years, |
0:50.0 | from the Australians to New Zealand to, of course, all of California. |
0:53.8 | Science journalist Kevin Begos, the author of the new book, |
0:57.4 | Tasting the Past, the Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine. |
1:02.7 | He spoke in June at Astor Wines and Spirits in Manhattan. |
1:07.4 | At one point, he talked about disease threats to wine grapes. |
1:10.8 | So the scientists are starting to get really concerned that this is said, At one point, he talked about disease threats to wine grapes. |
1:15.7 | So the scientists are starting to get really concerned that this is setting up a perfect scenario for a great pandemic, which would seem a little far-fetched, except we all know |
1:22.6 | that grapes are being reproduced by cuttings, you know, not by seed, you know, to keep the flavor |
1:27.3 | qualities. |
1:28.2 | What that means is they haven't been evolving for hundreds or thousands of years. You know, |
1:33.2 | Pino is 2,000 years old, which is kind of the general estimate. Since we've been cloning it |
1:39.4 | to keep the flavors for roughly 2,000 years, all the insects and pathogens and mildews that attack |
1:45.8 | grape vines have been evolving that whole time. They always figure out new ways to attack |
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