The conventional view is that high temperatures cause microorganisms to replicate slowly or die. In this current textbook view, microorganisms combat heat-induced damage on their own. Reporting in Nature Microbiology, Delft ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 21, 2020
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Psilocybin mushrooms have been found to have minimal harmful effects and could potentially benefit those with depression. But they remain illegal even though they offer a groundbreaking alternative to several under-treated ...
Biotechnology
Apr 16, 2020
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How do new genes appear? For more than a century, researchers have thought that, from time to time, new gene functions evolved after cells accidentally made a copy of one of their existing genes. According to this theory, ...
Biotechnology
Apr 9, 2019
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Lager beer is cold, crisp, dry—and worth about half a trillion dollars worldwide.
Plants & Animals
Jan 30, 2019
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Many organisms including insects, amphibians and yeasts use sex pheromones for attracting individuals of the opposite sex, but what happens to sex pheromones as new species emerge? New research publishing January 22 in the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 22, 2019
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On their way to decoding the genome of every organism in a major branch of the tree of life—that of the humble budding yeasts—a team of evolutionary biologists successfully reconstructed the genomic and metabolic characteristics ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 8, 2018
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A compound that has scientists seeing red may hold the key to engineering yeasts that produce better biofuels.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 5, 2018
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Yeasts are some of the most important microbes used in biotechnology. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the type of yeast used for making bread and beer, is just one representative of more than 1,500 yeast species found around the ...
Evolution
Sep 10, 2018
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Baker's yeast survive and grow after a drastic reorganization, not of their genes, but of the chromosome superstructures that house, protect and control access to their DNA code, a study just published in Nature finds.
Biotechnology
Aug 1, 2018
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A sticky drop of nectar clinging to the tip of a hummingbird's beak drips into the next flower the bird visits. With that subtle change, the microbes within that drop are now in a new environment, teeming with other microbes. ...
Ecology
Jun 11, 2018
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