It highlights the remarkable adaptability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, common baker’s yeast. Researchers previously observed that the species, which lives in colonies, can alter its pattern of growth ...

But how much do you really know about this organism, a single-celled fungus that scientists call Saccharomyces cerevisiae? As it turns out, baker’s yeast is a common model organism that researchers ...

Nutritional yeast, which people may also call baker’s yeast, comes from a common species of yeast known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. There is another form of this yeast species, which is called ...

More specifically, Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the species of yeast used for making wine, raising bread and fermenting beer. Now, new research indicates that various strains of the wonder ...