Think yeast just belongs in the kitchen ... and countless other scientists have generated about the three types of genes that regulate the cell cycle — CDC/CDK genes, checkpoint genes, and ...

“It’s rather satisfying to see that half of the genes could complement [the yeast function] because it justifies continuing working in yeast as a model . . . to help understand human genes.” Bakers’ ...

Now, FMI researchers have made significant progress in uncovering how transcription factors—proteins that control gene expression—work in fission yeast, a key model organism for studying gene ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species—including plants, fungi, and even humans—are genes that are passed from ...

It was also mind-boggling when, in 1987, British researchers demonstrated that a human gene could be inserted into the cells of a lowly yeast -- and it functioned perfectly well. In this landmark ...

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

Researchers have engineered yeast to efficiently convert methanol into D-lactic acid, a key compound for biodegradable plastics and pharmaceuticals. By optimizing gene and promoter combinations, they ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we mapped thousands of expression quantitative trait loci in yeast, including a variant in GPA1 that influences gene expression, cell-cycle occupancy, and mating ...

Francisco Quintana, an immunologist and neurologist at MIT’s Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues engineered an inflammation-sensing yeast probiotic that neutralizes the ...

One way to understand the function of a gene is to observe ... because of all the various model organisms most commonly used in the lab (e.g. fruit flies and yeast), mice have the genome that ...