In fact, two of the three scientists who received Nobel Prizes for cell cycle research used yeast as the subject of their investigations. The eukaryotic cell cycle includes four phases necessary ...

Study author and synthetic biologist Anthony Burnetti at the Georgia Institute of Technology turned to a variety of eukaryotic ... the cell’s dependency on ATP-fueled pumps. This independent rhodopsin ...

The unexpected discovery may provide scientists with new insights into how cancer develops — and how to combat it.

Eukaryotic cells use three major processes to transform ... which can cause a person's muscles to feel as if they are "on fire." Similarly, yeast, which is a single-celled eukaryote, produces ...

"The yeast cell is a great model for eukaryotic biology," said Litsios. "There are certain things we can do with yeast cells ...

One of their favorite test subjects is the yeast species S. pombe, used for centuries in traditional brewing. As a eukaryote, ...

Even though yeast is a model eukaryotic organism, attempts to engineer the functions of its cells have faced great limitations. When constructing genetic switches, it is very difficult to predict ...

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

Fifty years later, researchers have identified all 6,000, and they have extracted from this single-celled organism clues to the workings of all eukaryotic life. Scientists know more about cell cycle ...