The discovery of a surprising survival mechanism used by beer-brewing yeast could lead to new approaches for fighting cancer. This is the promise of researchers led from the University of Virginia ...

S. pombe, pictured in an electron microscope image, is a type of yeast used for centuries to brew beer. It’s also an invaluable research tool for scientists because of its similarity to human cells.

What happens to sex pheromones as new species emerge? New research studies sex pheromones in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, revealing an 'asymmetric' pheromone recognition system in ...

Under favorable conditions, the microbe, a species of yeast called S. pombe, does not age the way other microbes do, the researchers said.

In the February 21 Nature, an international consortium of laboratories, led by the British Nobel laureate Paul Nurse, reports the complete sequence of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe ...

Nurse's team has already compared the S. pombe genome to another five completed ones - those of budding yeast, the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly (Drosophila), mustard weed ...

Surviving Stress S. pombe is a species of yeast that has been used for centuries to brew beer. But it’s also an invaluable research tool for scientists because of its similarity to human cells.

Here we present two 'pombe epistasis mapper' strategies, PEM-1 and PEM-2, which allow for high-throughput double mutant generation in the fission yeast, S. pombe.

Budding yeast are used extensively in genetics. Cdc28 in S. cerevisiae and cdc2 in S. pombe continue to provide useful insights into mitosis.

Surviving stress S. pombe is a species of yeast that has been used for centuries to brew beer. But it's also an invaluable research tool for scientists because of its similarity to human cells.

This article describes how Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Xenopus eggs have been used in genetic studies of mitosis.