Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...

An orange-colored yeast species isolated from a Baltimore sidewalk several years ago could be the basis of eco-friendly ...

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...

Researchers have revived living yeast from the preserved remains of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy discovered in the Alps. The cold-adapted strain, extracted from his gut and surrounding ...

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Yeast don’t have much of a social life; they’re single-celled fungi, after all. But yeast are, indeed, social. Social interaction among humans might center around protein shakes and discussion of ...

As far as beer ingredients go, hops get all the glory, malt is having its moment, but yeast is the unsung hero of beer. Yeast is what makes beer beer. This little microorganism – part of the fungus ...

One of the biggest evolutionary hurdles for life on Earth was the jump from single-celled to multi-cellular organisms…or at least, that’s what we thought. Scientists set out to replicate this ...

The march toward “writing” a complex genome from scratch has taken another step forward, scientists announced on Thursday, with the synthesis of five more of the 16 chromosomes that make up the genome ...