yeast

Scientists extracted 4,500-year-old yeast from Egyptian pottery to use in breadmaking.

Governor Phil Murphy signs a bill honoring the bacterium discovered in his state’s soil, now known for its antibiotic compounds used to treat tuberculosis.

A study underscores the importance of Dna2 in maintaining the integrity of the genetic code.

A study on yeast illuminates how insertions may occur.

Genes inserted into the yeast genome produce the compounds CBD and THC in the microbes.

Two studies contest the idea that the noncoding sequences are just “junk DNA,” demonstrating that they play important roles in the regulation of cell growth.

Images from the country’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander show the first sprouting plants.

Scientist D. Allan Drummond’s study of life in sculpture aims to provoke curiosity and wonder about the world.

Researchers have outfitted brewer’s yeast with light-harvesting semiconductors to boost chemical productivity.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae showed only minor alterations in growth and gene expression when its 16 chromosomes were combined.

Under one name the species is used in food fermentation, and under the other it is a drug-resistant cause of yeast infections.

The young UT Southwestern professor studied cell fate in yeast and was about to publish the first results from his lab.

The yeast’s output of noscapine, a cough suppressant naturally made by poppies, is 18,000-fold higher than previous attempts.

With multiple applications in biomedicine, the antibodies can now be made quickly, cheaply, and without the need for an alpaca or one of its relatives.

By spreading a poison and hoarding the remedy, wtf4 improves its chances of being inherited. 

Members of the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project have synthesized five additional yeast chromosomes from scratch. 

Researchers find that some duplicated yeast genes develop dependency—the loss of one copy leads to the failure of the other.

Clostridium botulinum produces a transcription factor that can aggregate and self-propagate a prion-like form, leading to genome-wide changes in gene expression in E. coli, according to a study.

Yeast study finds many instances—often among related genes—in which a mutation in one gene cancels the negative effects of a mutation in another.