Since quiescent cells appear to be ‘asleep’ it is easy to think of quiescence as a passive state of inactivity. However, as Dr. Alison Greenlaw, former graduate student in the Tsukiyama lab and author ...

Our ability to manipulate the genes of living organisms has expanded dramatically in recent years. Now, researchers are a step closer to building genomes from scratch after unveiling a strain of yeast ...

A large international team has created a strain of yeast in which half of the 16 chromosomes are synthetic ones that have been redesigned and created from scratch, in a major step towards creating the ...