Yeast cells are simple organisms. They do two things in life: eat and propagate. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences have equipped ...

Caffeine appears to affect how cells handle stress and DNA damage—but researchers say it’s no magic bullet. Here’s what the ...

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 given yeast a brand new ability – gaining energy from light. The technique was remarkably easy, the team says, and could not only help us understand evolution but make better ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the "pacemaker" controlling yeast cell division lies inside the ...

Most of the widely used protocols for transforming yeast cells generally call for the preparation of fresh competent cells for each procedure. These preparations usually take two or three days, eating ...

In a lab in Atlanta, thousands of yeast cells fight for their lives every day. ... “And we don’t have a lot of information about how single cells form groups.” So he set up a simple experiment.

“The branches of the yeast had become entangled – the cluster cells evolved vine-like behavior, wrapping around each other and strengthening the entire structure.” By simply selecting on organismal ...

Green rhodopsin proteins inside the blue cell walls help these yeast grow faster when exposed to light. Anthony Burnetti/Georgia Institute of Technology Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Cancer cells go through the hell they create. The struggles of the starved yeast cells have some similarities to those of cancer cells.. Believe it or not, being a cancer cell is really tough.