Saccharomyces cerevisiae, commonly known as baker's or brewer's yeast, is one of the most studied microorganisms in the realm of fermentation technology. This species of yeast has been utilized for ...

Yeast, a single-celled organism, has been the star of human culinary history. Since ancient times, it has been an integral ...

When a cell divides, the genome has to be duplicated, then the two copies separated and one goes to each daughter cell. But ...

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Lignans are low molecular weight polyphenolic compounds with important antitumor and antiviral properties. However, their low ...

On Thursday, March 13, the Department of Biology hosted Greg Lang, associate professor of biological sciences at Lehigh ...

Cell 144, 719-731. Sasaki M, Tischfield SE, van Overbeek M, and Keeney S (2013) Meiotic recombination initiation in and around retrotransposable elements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genetics 9, ...

Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right, budding ...

The cataloguing of enzymes involved in ubiquitin metabolism—made possible by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome project and the extension of this molecular analysis using publicly available EST ...