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220
Chinese started using fermented tea to treat sickness
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400
Chinese fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections
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Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of the cell theory
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Louis Pasteur deteremined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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Eduard Buchner received the Nobel pize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation
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Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation
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Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics
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Fermentation is used to make bread and alcoholic beverages