Artist's rendering of the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (shown in purple), inside the gut where it worsens intestinal disease by causing uric acid to accumulate.

The study not only indicates the presence of RNAi in some budding yeast species, giving insight into the evolution of this pathway, but also suggests that RNAi has a quite different function in ...

Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right ...