News tagged with budding yeast
On the move for repair
Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have elucidated mechanisms that control DNA movement in the nucleus. They found that DNA with double-strand breaks moves more than undamaged ...
Apr 17, 2012 |
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How old yeast cells send off their daughter cells without the baggage of old age
The accumulation of damaged protein is a hallmark of aging that not even the humble baker's yeast can escape. Yet, aged yeast cells spawn off youthful daughter cells without any of the telltale protein clumps. ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Researchers use yeast to help piece together human genome sequence jigsaw
Using yeast as a model, a team of Spanish researchers has made predictions about how individuals differ from one another by analysing genome sequences.
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Position of telomeres in nucleus influences length
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study the latest issue of Nature Cell Biology sheds light on the mechanism controlling telomere length in budding yeast. In this publication, scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Instit ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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RNA interference found in budding yeasts
Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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