Word: wortly
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Wildiers discovered over 20 years ago that the micro-organisms of yeast will grow rapidly in beer wort, but not in artificial media. He called the unknown agent of growth "bios" in a book called La Cellule. In 1916 Dr. Williams suggested that the substance previously called Vitamin B was identical with Wildiers' "bios." Extracts of some substances known to be rich in B stimulate yeast growth, and many substances have been tested for yeast stimulation as a means of measuring their B content...
...Chemistry at the University of Toronto. A substance called bios (life) was discovered 20 years ago by a Belgian professor at Louvain University, but Dr. Miller, in experimenting on yeast, found that minute quantities of this substance greatly stimulated the growth of cells. In attempting to extract it from wort, he found that it could be split into the two new compounds...