The completion of chromosome synXVI allows scientists to explore new possibilities in metabolic engineering and strain optimization.

This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.

Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right ...

Macquarie University researchers, alongside an international team, have achieved a significant milestone in synthetic biology by completing the final chromosome of the world's first synthetic yeast ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) have developed a novel way to engineer yeast (Saccharomyces ... By reprogramming how yeast cells switch types, the team enabled ...

After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, ...

The structure of the Golgi apparatus varies in different cell types. The dispersed nature of Golgi cisternae in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae allowed researchers to resolve individual cisternae.

Autophagy, the cell's essential housekeeping process ... pathway that degrades a part of the nucleus (macronucleophagy) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a species of yeast widely used as a model ...

Construction of the final synthetic chromosome completes more than a decade of global effort to create the first designer ...