Think yeast just belongs in the kitchen? Mitosis in baker's yeast can also tell us about mutations that cause cancer. One of the first scientists to discover some of these cancer-causing mutations ...

For the factory in Jamaica, an organism has been developed at the Laboratory from a yeast used during the War of 1914-18 for feeding purposes ; though at the time nothing was known about its ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we mapped thousands of expression quantitative trait loci in yeast, including a variant in GPA1 that influences gene expression, cell-cycle occupancy, and mating ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species--including plants, fungi, and even humans--are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called ...

Eye of Science/Photo Researchers Yeast is the oldest domesticated microbe. Its potable fermentation products have sparked feuds, ended wars, instigated romance, and wrecked many a morning after. The ...

Desai imagined that growing an organism in the lab for a long, long time could be a stronger approach to studying evolution. He could multiply yeast in a myriad of controlled microcosms — in ...

In addition to these healthy bacterial species, many of us also harbour small amounts of the yeast organism Candida albicans in our intestine. While Candida does not normally cause problems ...

Even though yeast is a model eukaryotic organism, attempts to engineer the functions of its cells have faced great limitations. When constructing genetic switches, it is very difficult to predict ...

Toenail fungus is caused by an overgrowth of yeast organisms. In my experience, the problem is normally a sign that yeast is active elsewhere in the body, particularly the gut. Another symptom of ...

But the thing that sets bread apart from other baked goods is yeast. Yeast is a living organism that eats sugars, turning them into carbon dioxide gas and alcohol. That process, called ...

Now, FMI researchers have made significant progress in uncovering how transcription factors—proteins that control gene expression—work in fission yeast, a key model organism for studying gene ...