Researchers discovered the dominant species of bacteria in kefir grains cannot endure without other species that help the 'team'…
While cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) was first envisioned in 1968, the advances the Mahamid group are bringing to this 3D method for studying…
Scientists from the Beck group have studied the 3D structure of nuclear pores in budding yeast. They show how the architecture of the nuclear pore…
Most of us love brewer’s yeast, or at least the food that it’s helped us to produce since ancient times. Without Saccharomyces cerevisiae (its…
Scientists develop high-throughput yeast single-cell RNA sequencing…
As any rock-climber knows, trailing a long length of rope behind you is not easy. A dangling length of rope is unwieldy and hard to manoeuvre, and…
Once the human genome was sequenced in 2001, the hunt was on for the genes that make each of us unique. But scientists at the European Molecular…
For many years, the mosquitoes that transmit malaria to humans were seen as public enemies, and campaigns to eradicate the disease focused on…
Genetic recombination, the process by which sexually reproducing organisms shuffle their genetic material when producing germ cells, leads to…
New insights into the cellular signal chain through which pheromones stimulate mating in yeast have been gained by scientists at the European…
Like our body every cell has a skeleton that provides it with a shape, confers rigidity and protects its fragile inner workings. The cytoskeleton is…
The life of a cell is all about growing and dividing at the right time. That is why the cell cycle is one of the most tightly regulated cellular…
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