Yeast cells aren’t normally magnetic, but a little genetic engineering can make them thralls to a magnetic field. The research, published today (February 28) in PLoS Biology, suggests that ...

. Published by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016, USA; 1997. pp. 360. $45.00 Whereas the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been the preferred tool for many ...

As Hartwell (who is still working with yeast) and his colleagues from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, have shown, the nature of the cell cycle checkpoint ...