Researchers in California report development of a new kind of genetically modified yeast cell that produces complex proteins up to 300 times more than possible in the past. These "super yeasts" could ...
... including people, are susceptible to certain mutations and not others."
The approach used in this study allows yeast to accumulate mutations in the near absence of natural selection. By doing this, ...
... know that it’s also prized for its applications in medical research?
The metabolic processes of yeast cells are similar to mammal cells, and since yeast reproduces quickly, experimental results can be ...
... received daily fish oil and red yeast rice supplements, and they were enrolled in a 12-week ... alternative or relaxation practitioners. Red yeast rice is the product of yeast grown on rice. A dietary ...
... more we know about gene networks, the more we learn about how they can fail," said Bennett.
Feeding Yeast the Microfluidic Way
The work also highlights the kinds of important biological insights ...
Researchers have suggested that wine is produced as a result of yeast altering their environment to ensure they will outlive other microbes.
Chemists mix and match enzymes in yeast to make painkillers and anti-cancer therapeutics
... , an antibiotic; and morphine.
The researchers are now in the process of engineering their yeast so that they will turn these precursor molecules into the final, pharmacologically useful molecules. " ...
... apply that knowledge to the human system. Many of the fundamental mechanisms for cell division in yeast are conserved, or very similar, in mammals; many of the proteins involved in human disease are ...
... meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin. Cells of the Cryptococcus yeast responsible for one of the three most life-threatening infections that commonly attack HIV infected patients, ...
... in Genome Research (www.genome.org), researchers have identified the genomic origins of the lager yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus, which could help brewers to better control the brewing process. For ...
... in ancient Burmese amber, a tiny colony of bacteria and yeast has lain dormant for up to 45 million years. Raul Cano now brews barrels of pale ale and German wheat beer using that ancient yeast.
Suicide-committing yeasts assist German scientists striving towards the perfect enzyme for catalysing asymmetric organic reactions
... therapies. Pathogens aggregate into biofilms using a mechanism similar to that seen in flocculating yeast.
"Last but not least," says Verstrepen, "the findings are also of interest to brewers, who ...
... may serve as a model for learning more about how to combat these infectious microbes.
" Common yeast infections are essentially harmless," he said. But other pathogenic yeast can be deadly in those ...
