More than 500 researchers working around the world have advanced the quest to create a synthetic yeast genome. Writing in Science this week, the team say they’ve completed five new synthetic ...

Yeast helps your bread to rise and beer to brew, but did you know that there’s yeast in the guts of insects? Or that your body is covered—and filled—with yeast cells? In this segment, recorded live in ...

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 ...

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

Synthetic yeast is on the rise. Scientists have constructed five more yeast chromosomes from scratch. The new work, reported online March 9 in Science, brings researchers closer to completely ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — A new study published by researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) found that beers brewed with a new genetically modified yeast have more intense hop flavors. The yeast increases ...

Can cells be engineered to slow their aging? The answer, explained in a new article in the journal Science, is yes. A team of researchers at UC San Diego managed to reengineer a gene circuit that ...

When brewer’s yeast left over from beer making is mixed with the right seasonings, it makes a bitter, earthy paste called Marmite that is especially popular in the U.K. Smeared on toast, it’s a snack ...

While non-alcoholic beer has some obvious advantages over its traditional counterpart, many people say that it just doesn't taste as good. Danish scientists now claim to have overcome that problem, ...