On the left, a transcription factor designed by UW researchers (gray and red) is integrated into the "receiver" yeast cell. This activates a gene that turns the receiver cell fluorescent green.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the "pacemaker" controlling yeast cell division lies inside the nucleus rather than outside it, as previously thought. Having the ...

Researchers have modified a yeast cell to sense the active substances in cannabis and get it to turn red when it does. The result paves the way for more actors to discover new medicinal substances ...

And it worked: Within 60 days, the snowflake yeast appeared. When these yeast divide, thanks to a mutation, they don’t fully separate from one another. Instead they form branching structures of ...

In yeast, the heads-or-tails phenomenon that Cullen describes involves the direction in which a colony spawns new cells. Under normal circumstances, existing yeast cells — called mother cells — give ...

Yeast cells are widely used to study G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a large group of cell surface proteins in humans. However, several of these proteins lose their function when introduced ...

For yeast, having clumps of amyloid is not fatal. Serio and her students exposed amyloid-containing cells of baker's yeast to 104 F (40 C), a temperature that would be a high fever in a human.

A new experiment evolved yeast clusters into globs of more than 400,000 cells—a significant leap from much smaller clusters of cells. When these clusters are compressed, they fracture into ...

Yeast cells living in clumps can feed themselves more effectively than individual cells, offering scientists a clue to the evolution of complex life. Skip to main content.