How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

The cells of some yeast species undergo what appears to be a self-destruct process following certain kinds of stress, according to a new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...

“Our motivation is to understand the first principles of genome fundamentals by building synthetic genomes,” says co-author and synthetic biologist Patrick Yizhi Cai (@caiyizhi) of the University of ...

Scientists have engineered a chromosome entirely from scratch that will contribute to the production of the world's first synthetic yeast. Scientists have engineered a chromosome entirely from scratch ...

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 pacemaker ...

Amino acids are the building blocks of life. We obtain them from the food we eat, and the body uses them to make proteins, which in turn are used for growth, development, and a multitude of other ...

In a milestone achievement, a whole chromosome has been created from scratch by scientists for the first time ever. The tRNA Neochromosome is a man-made chromosome of the common baker's yeast ...

Imagine the life of a yeast cell, floating around the kitchen in a spore that eventually lands on a bowl of grapes. Life is good: food for days, at least until someone notices the rotting fruit and ...