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In climate change, some of you may be aware through news reports, etc., that there have been calls to promote both the decline in bee populations and it's been startling over the last several years. Climate change and agriculture have increasingly deprived honey bees of a lot of their plant diversity that we need to thrive on. Pollen, the large form of the diet, has a specific lipid called sparrow and are needed for developing further development. And increasingly, beekeepers are feeding artificial pollen to their bees due to not enough natural pollen. However, these commercial supplements, which are made of protein, flour, sugar and oil, don't have the right sparrow compounds, making them officially incomplete for the bees. There's this new study that's carried out with the Royal Botanic Gardens to the University of Greenwich and the Technical University of Denmark. The team there succeeded in engineering the yeast, the specific yeast strains.