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In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.
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 ...
Fifteen Questions: David Sinclair on Age Reversal, Exercise, and Immortal Yeast Cells The Professor of Genetics sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss anti-aging research, the wellness industry ...
Anaerobic respiration in yeasts Anaerobic respiration in yeast and other microbes is a metabolic process that occurs in the absence of oxygen, allowing yeast cells to generate energy. This is also ...
Engineered yeast cells deliver PD-1 inhibitors that shrink intestinal tumors in mice By Darren Incorvaia Nov 22, 2024 3:12pm PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors probiotic yeast ...
New cancer treatments could be on the way, thanks to a surprising discovery involving yeast used to brew beer. University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists and collaborators at the European ...
What can stressed yeast teach us about fundamental processes in the cell? A lot, according to scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The team studies, among other topics ...
An international team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has mapped the movement of proteins encoded by the yeast genome throughout its cell cycle. This is the first time that all the ...
The toolkit consists of 15 different yeast strains that over-produce key cellular building blocks—amino acids and nucleotides—but lack the ability to make other building blocks.
A team aiming to produce the first complex cell with an entirely synthetic genome has created a strain of yeast with half of its chromosomes designed from scratch ...