Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species--including plants, fungi, and even humans--are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called ...

The genetic material of yeast contains around 6,000 genes encoding proteins. Despite decades of research, however, we are ...

Think yeast just belongs in the kitchen ... and he is still a leader in the field of cancer genetic research. The first in his family to attend college and driven, in part, by a desire to ...

Researchers at the Stowers Institute discovered how selfish genes manipulate inheritance by forming toxic protein clusters. These genes, found in yeast, evolve rapidly to outpace genetic suppression ...

The researchers established a platform for creating genetic switches that could be applied to the development of sophisticated, artificially controlled yeast cells to produce large quantities of ...

Yet this genetic similarity is very real ... that a human gene could be inserted into the cells of a lowly yeast -- and it functioned perfectly well. In this landmark experiment, researchers ...

Jef Boeke, a geneticist at New York University, and his team use yeast as an artistic medium in their lab. Instead of pens or paintbrushes, these scientists use genetics, genomics, and synthetic ...

Weizmann Institute researchers forced thousands of yeast proteins to go on a surprise strike – and uncovered their previously unknown roles in some of life’s most basic processes ...

Now, FMI researchers have made significant progress in uncovering how transcription factors—proteins that control gene expression—work in fission yeast, a key model organism for studying gene ...

In yeast, however, binding of Rad51 to ssDNA is enhanced by the proteins Rad52 and the complex Rad55-Rad57. Once access has been gained, Rad51 polymerizes on the DNA strand to form what is called ...

My laboratory conducts molecular genetic and chemical genetic research using the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Initially, we studied how extracellular glucose triggers repression of ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species—including plants, fungi, and even humans—are genes that are passed from ...