Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right ...

They reproduce through a process called budding, in which a “mother cell ... “Humans domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but there are so many different species of yeast in the world. Sourdoughs ...

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the most important model organisms used in ageing-related research. In comparison with other systems, the relative ease and rapidity with which ...

Over the past century, studies of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have helped to unravel principles of nearly every aspect of eukaryotic cell biology--from metabolism and molecular ...

FINDINGS: Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because ...

Researchers have characterized how the essential mRNA poly(A) tails are synthesized in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The study reveals several mechanisms controlling poly(A ...

Aug. 13, 2021 — Researchers have characterized how the essential mRNA poly(A) tails are synthesized in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The study reveals several mechanisms ...

So why did cells start sticking together? John Koschwanez at Harvard University and colleagues say that budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) may show the answer. Yeast is a single-celled ...

More information: Makanae, K. et al. Identification of dosage-sensitive genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using the genetic tug-of-war method, Genome Research 2013 23(2) 300-311. Journal ...

Leonard P. Guarente is an American biologist best known for his research on life span extension in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. He is currently at the Massachusetts Institute of ...