Yeasts are free-living, unicellular eukaryotes--fungi. Yet despite their simplicity, yeast cells are similar to higher eukaryotes in several important ways. 1 For example, they contain membrane-bound ...

Scientists have finally created synthetic life in a lab by constructing a synthetic yeast for the first time in history.

Neat, right? The idea is the same: Yeast cells are inactive when they're dried, and when you take that step in the recipe that calls for adding yeast to sugar and warm water, you're essentially ...

As Hartwell (who is still working with yeast) and his colleagues from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, have shown, the nature of the cell cycle checkpoint ...

. Published by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016, USA; 1997. pp. 360. $45.00 Whereas the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been the preferred tool for many ...

In a previous study, the research team found that mutant yeast cells with defective macronucleophagy (atg39Δ mutants) died rapidly when placed under nitrogen starvation. After careful comparisons ...