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Commercial plant fertilizers aren't cheap, but yeast certainly is, and it could potentially provide benefits when added to ...

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...

Yeast cells are widely used to study G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a large group of cell surface proteins in humans. However, several of these proteins lose their function when introduced into ...

Can cells be engineered to slow their aging? The answer, explained in a new article in the journal Science, is yes. A team of researchers at UC San Diego managed to reengineer a gene circuit that ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...