In a recent study published in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, a team of researchers from Brazil presented a fatal case of a patient developing Saccharomyces cerevisiae infection and ...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae, commonly known as baker’s or brewer’s yeast, is a unicellular fungus and a classic model organism used extensively for research in genetics and molecular biology. It is also ...

Scientists at the Macquarie University in Australia worked with an international team of scientists to achieve a major milestone in synthetic biology by completing the creation of the final chromosome ...

Researchers have identified a gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that might be important for ethanol production from plant material, providing insights into the bioethanol alternative to ...

Though dogs are usually considered humankind's best friend, if you really think about it, the animal that gives many people the most joy is yeast. More specifically, Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the ...

Spo11-oligo mapping — Upper: the Spo11-oligo map agrees with ssDNA microarray analysis (Buhler et al., PLoS Biology, 2007) but is higher resolution. Lower: Agreement of the Spo11-oligo map with direct ...

The common baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) was the first non-bacterial living thing to have its genome sequenced, back in 1996. However, when the sequence of that genome emerged it appeared ...

The fluffiness of bread, the peculiar aroma of wine, the goodness of fermented food - we can credit yeast for all that we love about these foods. But yeast often finds itself in the crossfire for its ...

Yeast is a vegan-friendly food. Neither animal nor plant, yeast is a microscopic member of the fungus family, and its most common culinary strain is Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Although yeast is ...