New ways to understand metabolism offer pathways for advances in human health and disease Chinese researchers have decoded ...

Discover how snowflake yeast defies expectations, growing exponentially due to physical processes, challenging traditional ...

Chinese researchers have discovered parallels between yeast metabolism and the ancient philosophy of yin and yang, redefining ...

The colorful pigment extracted from the lac insect may actually be produced by a symbiotic yeast-like organism living inside ...

There may be a new use for that urine you've been so thoughtlessly flushing. Scientists say it could be an alternate source ...

Over 3,000 generations of laboratory evolution, researchers watched as their model organism, 'snowflake yeast,' began to adapt as multicellular individuals. In new research, the team shows how ...

“We were frankly shocked by how simple it was to turn the yeast into phototrophs (organisms that can harness and use energy from light),” study co-author and Georgia Institute of Technology ...

You may be familiar with yeast as the organism content to turn carbs into products like bread and beer when left to ferment in the dark. In these cases, exposure to light can hinder or even spoil the ...

"but re-engineering different yeast organisms to grow on each biomass sugar is not the best approach. We wanted to design a single yeast organism that can feed off a complete, or nearly complete ...

Although yeast is technically alive—it's a single-celled organism that metabolizes food into energy—it's no more an animal than other fungi such as mushrooms. Therefore, yeast is generally ...