Yeasts News (4 articles)

Scientists from the University of Auckland have discovered a unique group of New Zealand yeasts involved in wine production, and have begun to identify the origins of the local yeast strains - with surprising results.The researchers examined Saccharomyces cerevisiae wine yeast from a spontaneous...

Published on 20 August 2009, 18:48

Categories: Yeasts Wine Wine Production Wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

An emerging form of the pathogenic yeast Candida is able to complete a full sexual cycle in a test tube, even though it's missing the genes for reproduction. And it may also do so while infecting us, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers. "Sex contributes to the...

Published on 24 May 2009, 12:59

Categories: Candida Microbiology Pathogens Sex Genes Yeast infections Yeasts

One of the perplexing questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the individual, came to exist.Cooperative behavior has puzzled biologists because if only the fittest survive, genes for a behavior that benefits...

Published on 6 April 2009, 12:19

Categories: Bioengineering Physics Yeasts

Teams of scientists from Australia and the United States have used yeast and mammalian cells to discover a connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson’s disease.Yeasts are single cell organisms, used widely in biological research because their structure resembles that...

Published on 1 March 2009, 04:57

Categories: Alpha-synuclein Genetics Medicine PARK9 Parkinson Yeasts