Yeast biology yields insights into human knowledge expansion
How does human knowledge expand over time? Intriguing as the question is, it's not easy to investigate, due to the difficulty of measuring knowledge and its spread.
How does human knowledge expand over time? Intriguing as the question is, it's not easy to investigate, due to the difficulty of measuring knowledge and its spread.
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Mar 20, 2009
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The discovery in common brewer's yeast of a new, infectious, misfolded protein -- or prion -- by University of Illinois at Chicago molecular biologists raises new questions about the roles played by these curious molecules, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 13, 2009
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When it comes to the aging process, yeast, nematode worms and fruit flies have more in common with humans than previously expected. In addition to highlighting the similarities between species, a large-scale human protein ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 13, 2009
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In times of starvation, cells tighten their belts: they start to digest their own proteins and cellular organs. The process - known as autophagy - takes place in special organelles called autophagosomes. It is a strategy ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 27, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A single cell - whether a yeast cell or one of your cells - is exquisitely sensitive to its surroundings. It receives input signals, processes the information, makes decisions, and issues commands for making ...
Feb 24, 2009
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Actin, a globular protein found in all eukaryotic cells, is a workhorse that varies remarkably little from baker's yeast to the human body. Part of the cytoskeleton, actin assembles into networks of filaments that give the ...
Feb 18, 2009
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Genes that contain instructions for making proteins make up less than 2% of the human genome. Yet, for unknown reasons, most of our genome is transcribed into RNA. The same is true for many other organisms that are easier ...
Jan 25, 2009
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