CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Every plant, animal or other nucleus-containing cell also harbors an array of miniature “organs” that perform essential functions for the cell. In plants, for example, organelles ...

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 ...

In researching the formation of these multicellular organisms, Ratcliff used a strain of snowflake yeast with budding “daughters” that tend to cling to their parents, allowing the creation of small ...

You can thank an ancient fruit fly, a stroke of dumb luck, and sex for your favorite cheese. New research published in Current Biology indicates that milk yeast evolved to be able to turn milk into ...

It’s official: Sex is good for you. Well, at least it’s good for yeast. From an evolutionary standpoint, sexual reproduction seems to have many disadvantages over the asexual variety. It wastes time ...

Aligned nucleotides of the spurious ORF, YDR102C, are shown as stacked squares for the four species compared (S. cerevisiae, S. paradoxus, S. mikatae, and S. bayanus, respectively). Green represents a ...

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