cerevisiae in Biological News

Growing fuel and medicine: Advancing biofuels and plant-produced therapeutics

... scientists not working with yeast. Saccharomyces cerevisiae continues to push the limits of genomics and ... facile eukaryotic organism. My laboratory uses S. cerevisiae to understand the fundamental mechanisms of ... genetic and genomic tools available in S. cerevisiae to understand the mode of action of ...

Reviews of microbial gene language published in special issue of Trends in Microbiology

... of Gene Ontology terms from the extensively studied yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae . S. cerevisiae is another workhorse of the molecular biology laboratory and Gene ...

Weizmann Institute scientists discover: A 'risk distribution law' for evolution

... undergone genome doubling millions of years ago. After the duplication, cerevisiae seem to have learned a new trick: They gained the ability to grow and ... of the yeast. The ability to live without oxygen might give cerevisiae a clear advantage over its sister yeast if there were a radical change in ...

Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production

... The researchers have recently filed a patent application for their process. In industrial fermentation processes, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is commonly used for ethanol production. Current bioethanol production technologies can use only parts of the plants, namely the storage sugars, ...

Calculating gene and protein connections in a Parkinson's disease model

... testable hypotheses." To demonstrate ResponseNet's capabilities, Yeger-Lotem entered the data from screens of 5,500 yeast strains ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ). These strains are based on a yeast model that creates large amounts of the protein alpha-synuclein, thereby mimicking the toxic effects of ...

Scientists study full protein content of 'baker's yeast'

... have counterparts in the human body, such as cell cycle proteins and signalling proteins, were first discovered through the study of Saccharomyces cerevisiae a species of budding yeast, thought to have been originally isolated on the skins of grapes. Commonly used in baking and brewing it shares the ...

Genetic differences between yeasts greater than those between humans and chimpanzees

... genome properties (i.e. phenotypes) of 70 different individual organisms from two different species of yeast the common brewer's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its evolutionary cousin Saccharomyces paradoxus. The paper presents several interesting conclusions, e.g. that human alcohol consumption has ...

Carnegie's Doug Koshland elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology

... records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology." Using the simple, single-celled yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Koshland has become a leader in studying the molecular processes that control the dynamics of chromosome structure and evolutionthe foundations for ...

Food can affect a cell in the same way hormones do

... food as it uses to grasp the food for transport. Yeast vs. humans This research has been conducted on yeast cells, as yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ) is a micro-organism that is used as a model organism. Yeast cells are surprisingly similar to human cells, but they are easier to cultivate and ...

Evolution and the workaround

... cells mutate to evade the body’s defenses and resist treatment with drugs. The Stowers researchers used the benign budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as their model organism and deleted a key cell division gene called MYO1. Surely, eliminating this important gene would shut down cell division. ...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

... Also selected in the latest round is a project to sequence up to 50 strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was first completed in 1996 and is a primary model for studying variations in genomes that can contribute to health and disease. The genomic data ...

The closest look ever at the cell's machines

... in Germany announce they have finished the first complete analysis of the "molecular machines" in one of biology's most important model organisms: S. cerevisiae (baker's yeast). The study from the biotechnology company Cellzome, in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), appears ...

To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists

... Last year Romesberg was awarded a Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Idea Award of $563,100 to identify the genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast and human cells that induce mutations that can transform normal cells into cancer cells. The article, "Inhibition of Mutation and Combating ...

Navigating an integrated yeast network

... of biological networks." This press release is based on the following article: Motifs, themes and thematic maps of an integrated Saccharomyces cerevisiae interaction network Lan V Zhang, Oliver D King, Sharyl L Wong, Debra S Goldberg, Amy HY Tong, Guillaume Lesage, Brenda Andrews, Howard Bussey, ...

Fibril Shape Is The Basis Of Prion Strains And Cross-species Prion Infection

... of yeast could infect another yeast species. Just as in the case with the preseeded mice fibrils, a particular fibril shape in Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast allowed prion transmission to Candida albicans yeast. The transmission event led to a new strain of Candida prion fibrils that could in turn ...

New Study from Affymetrix Laboratories Points to Changing View of How Genome Works

... plans to launch high-resolution tiling arrays for the entire human genome and several model organisms, including Drosophila, Arabidopsis, S. cerevisiae and S. pombe. Further Information: Using GeneChip(R) technology to study all human transcripts (Transcriptome) Using Affymetrix tiling ...