In a lab in Atlanta, thousands of yeast cells fight for their lives every day. The ones that live another day grow fastest, reproduce quickest and form the biggest clumps.

Yeast cells are widely used to study G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a large group of cell surface proteins in humans. However, several of these proteins lose their function when introduced ...

Candida is a type of yeast that resides in many parts of the body. It doesn’t necessarily signal a problem. This is even true with Candida in the stool. However, there are cases where an ...

Yeast cells can produce drugs for treatment of psychotic disorders Date: November 10, 2023 Source: Technical University of Denmark Summary: An international team of researchers has demonstrated ...

New cancer treatments could be on the way, thanks to a surprising discovery involving yeast used to brew beer. University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists and collaborators at the European ...

Candida is a type of yeast that grows in the body in areas such as the mouth, gut, and vagina. When a person has an overgrowth of Candida in the gut, it can appear in stools.Candida yeast in stool ...

The fuel cell can harvest electrons from feeding yeast - smaller versions could one day be implanted in the human body to power medical devices. The prototype is 15 millimetres square and 1.4 mm ...

Mutant cells lacking functional mitofusin (c, d) contain small, fragmented mitochondria. Mutant cells lacking functional Dnm1 (e, f) contain an abnormally complex interconnected net of mitochondria.

Yeast cells with a partially synthetic genome, viewed with an electron microscope. Cell, Zhao et al. A large international team has created a strain of yeast in which half of the 16 chromosomes ...

Cell membranes play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and functionality of cells. However, the mechanisms by which ...

Professor Hao did his experiments on yeast cells, which he says behave in a similar way to human cells. The engineering tool kit came from a process called synthetic biology.