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 ...

A team of scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker’s yeast for the first time. The human genes in question ...

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...

One of the biggest evolutionary hurdles for life on Earth was the jump from single-celled to multi-cellular organisms…or at least, that’s what we thought. Scientists set out to replicate this ...

What does Big Bend taste like? That’s one of the questions Rob Green and his wife and business partner, Mara Young, are answering at San Antonio’s Community Cultures Yeast Lab. There, they test and ...

ASHEVILLE - Sitting squarely in the Venn diagram of science and craft beer is White Labs, the San Diego-based yeast-production company that will open its Asheville outpost and start producing yeast ...

The sex life of yeast has University of Houston biologists fermenting new ideas about evolution and beer. Researchers studying yeast reproductive habits have for the first time observed a rapid method ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The scientific quest to create life in the laboratory is accelerating. Researchers working on a large ...

The march toward “writing” a complex genome from scratch has taken another step forward, scientists announced on Thursday, with the synthesis of five more of the 16 chromosomes that make up the genome ...

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“Our motivation is to understand the first principles of genome fundamentals by building synthetic genomes,” says co-author and synthetic biologist Patrick Yizhi Cai (@caiyizhi) of the University of ...