Science news articles about 'yeast genetics'

... and yield faster growing progeny, a situation reminiscent of what happens in tumors. Using the yeast genetics tools the researchers could show that improved growth is not linked to aneuploidy, but to ...

... cell by adding yeast centromeric plasmid sequence to the bacterial chromosome and modified it in yeast using yeast genetic systems. This modified bacterial chromosome was then isolated from yeast and ...

... concept of synthetic lethality – which is part of the intellectual framework of these two studies -- has its roots in yeast genetics. Synthetic lethality is defined as a genetic interaction where the ...

... the performance of this important drug. Dr Simon Avery and colleagues in the School of Biology used yeast genetics to examine the effects of quinine on a collection of 6000 yeast mutants, each one ...

... Roth, who was trained as a psychiatrist. "At the time, this idea was science fiction." They used yeast genetics to evolve a specific receptor that could react with a specific chemical, because yeast ...

Using yeast genetics and a novel scheme to selectively remove a single protein from the cell division process called ... investigator Hong-Guo Yu calls the "genetics trick" performed by his research team ...

... of a long-standing collaborative effort between the structural biology laboratory headed by Tainer and the yeast genetics laboratory headed by Russell. Both laboratories have over the years helped ...