A new experiment evolved yeast clusters into globs of more than 400,000 cells—a significant leap from much smaller clusters of cells. When these clusters are compressed, they fracture into ...

Scientists are conducting a long-term experiment on evolution to investigate how single-celled organisms could evolve into multicellular lifeforms. After thousands of generations, their yeast grew ...

Setting the pace of cell division. To do this, Nitin developed sensors that allowed him to look inside single live yeast cells, and to monitor CDK activity simultaneously in both the nucleus and ...

The students examined cellular respiration yeast, or C.R.Y. Typically, this cell model is used to study growth and regulation. The processes occurring in the yeast cells are similar to what would ...

A big experiment may have just revealed the secret to multicellularity. No big deal—it just changes what we know about evolution.

"It's a beautiful demonstration of the common heritage of all living things — to be able to take DNA from a human and replace the matching DNA in a yeast cell, and have it successfully support ...

Within 100 yeast generations—about two weeks—the population had shifted almost entirely to snowflake yeast. “I was gobsmacked,” Ratcliff said. “It was unusual, fast and dramatic.” ...

New technique reveals causes of aging in yeast Date: December 1, 2015 Source: University of Groningen Summary: A unique experiment to study aging in yeast cells has been designed by researchers.

Scientists have inserted fungus genes into a yeast cell to make it produce penicillin molecules. In laboratory experiments, they were able to demonstrate that this yeast had antibacterial ...