Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Science have modified a yeast cell to sense the active substances in cannabis and get it to turn red when it does. The result paves the way for ...

For life on planet Earth, all roads inevitably lead to death, but they’re not all paved the same. This is what Nan Hao, an associate professor in molecular biology at the University of California, San ...

Metabolic engineering has enabled the construction of efficient microbial cell factories, but cellular aging and the ...

Vinblastine and vincristine are both common chemotherapies that are used to treat several types of cancer. The drugs stop cancer cells from dividing. Vinblastine is derived from compounds called ...

New cancer treatments could be on the way, thanks to a surprising discovery involving yeast used to brew beer. University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists and collaborators at the European ...

A team of University of California San Diego (UCSD) scientists has genetically rewired the circuit that controls cell aging in yeast. From its normal role functioning like a toggle switch, they ...

Delivering drugs to gut tumors can be tricky. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have engineered an oral probiotic yeast to do the work for them, with the fungal cells able to release ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), is associated with mucosal inflammation that arises due to abnormal immune cell activation. A new ...

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, ...

To assess Martian viability, scientists subjected yeast cells to Mach 5.6 shock waves and the corrosive perchlorate salts ...