The fungus behind yeast infections is a mercurial beast, and there's something specific in human blood that may flip its ...

The engineered Pichia pastoris screened by comprehensive systems metabolic engineering, adaptive laboratory evolution and ...

Alterations in metabolic pathways are gaining attention as important environmental factors affecting life span, but the determination of specific metabolic pathways and enzymes involved in life span ...

The α-factor receptor of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae encoded by the STE2 gene is a member of the large family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that mediate multiple signal transduction ...

Scientists have developed an innovative method to produce and rapidly analyze a vast array of macrocyclic peptides, molecules increasingly used in modern medicine. The research, published in ...

In new research published by scientists studying fission yeast —a single-celled organism surprisingly similar to human cells—researchers found that caffeine affects aging by tapping into an ancient ...

In yeast, the CDK and cyclin proteins that drive cell division activate first in the nucleus — a different location in the cell from where was previously thought.

A new study from the Cellular Aging and Senescence laboratory at Queen Mary University of London's Centre for Molecular Cell Biology reveals how caffeine—the world's most popular neuroactive ...