Tsukuba, Japan－Automation of life-science experiments through robots and computers is attracting attention worldwide in various fields, and the advancement of such automation may lead to improved ...

“While it’s relatively easy to grow animal cells for mass food production you need to be able to grow them on something cheap ...

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Snowflakes of yeast in a lab offer insights into how life on Earth transitioned from single-celled into multicellular organisms. By Veronique Greenwood In a lab in Atlanta, thousands of yeast cells ...

Working with light to activate processes within genetically modified fission yeast cells is among the research performed by the experimental biologists in the Martin Lab at the University of Lausanne, ...

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 ...

A multi-disciplinary team has discovered and characterized a new mechanism that a simple yeast cell uses to acquire its shape. Working with light to activate processes within genetically modified ...

Postdoctoral researcher Diedre Reitz is working with Professor Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, to discover how DNA can be repaired. Damaged or 'shattered' DNA ...