The main food used by cells for respiration is glucose. If oxygen is present then animal, plant and yeast cells can carry out aerobic respiration. The overall process of aerobic respiration is ...

To investigate what happens when yeast cells anticipate a shortage of their favorite food, Shin Ohsawa—a postdoc in the Bühler lab—and his ... factor triggers a respiration-like gene ...

Xinning Zhang and Ashley Maloney discovered that a geology technique shows promise in detecting cancer-like cells. If their ...

Humans have taken advantage of the metabolism in a tiny fungus called yeast ... defined it as respiration without air (Barnett 2000; Pasteur 1876). Pasteur performed careful experiments and ...

Anaerobic respiration is economically important - many of our foods are produced by microorganisms respiring anaerobically. Yeast is used to make alcoholic drinks. When yeast cells are reproducing ...

Cells manage a wide range of functions in their ... which can cause a person's muscles to feel as if they are "on fire." Similarly, yeast, which is a single-celled eukaryote, produces alcohol ...