The story of Candida auris starts in 2009, when a 70-year-old Japanese woman is a patient at the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital. Something discharges from one of her ears, and the doctors ...

The post Modified Yeast Has Been Shown To Increase Bee Development By 15 Times, Which Could Lead To A Reversal Of Colony ...

Scientists have hit a major milestone in a 15-year project trying to build a completely synthetic yeast genome. Reporting in a bumper crop of new papers, the team has engineered viable yeast cells ...

Could baker’s yeast injections protect against one of the deadliest infections in the world? New research seems to indicate yes. The fungus Aspergillus is the cause of aspergillosis, the leading ...

The results suggest that internal -- not external -- factors are the primary drivers of variation in the types of carbon yeasts can eat, and the researchers found no evidence that metabolic ...

They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do their life’s ...

Fungal systems biology is the scientific study of the functions and properties of fungi in an integrative, systematic way, based on the analysis and modelling of large data sets. Fungal systems ...

Scientists have given yeast a brand new ability – gaining energy from light. The technique was remarkably easy, the team says, and could not only help us understand evolution but make better beer and ...

Scientists used CRISPR to boost the efficiency and digestibility of a fungus already known for its meatlike qualities. The ...