{"id":15951,"date":"2019-06-04T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=15951"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:10:49","slug":"potw1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/picture-of-the-week\/potw1923\/","title":{"rendered":"Colourful yeast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of us love brewer\u2019s yeast, or at least the food that it\u2019s helped us to produce since ancient times. Without <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saccharomyces cerevisiae<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (its Latin name) we couldn\u2019t enjoy wine, beer or most types of bread. Besides its role in food production, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S. cerevisiae<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is also an important model organism for biologists.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s Picture of the Week shows yeast cells, labelled in different colours using fluorescent dyes. The colours allow researchers to mix cells from different experiments and subsequently trace back which cell came from which experiment \u2013 this method is called barcoding.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EMBL alumnus Yury Bykov established this barcoding technique for use in conjunction with automated electron microscopy. His method makes it possible to study the tiny structures inside cells from different experiments simultaneously. 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