Evolutionary transitions in mating strategy have profound consequences for genetic variation and adaptation. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mating-type switching is a central feature of the life cycle t...

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

An in-depth microbiological and metagenomic analysis of Colombian farm and fermentation facilities resulted in the design of a defined microbial community that can reproduce the flavour of fine chocol...

SUMMARYFungi use light as a signal for the regulation of development, to guide the growth of reproductive structures, and to protect the fungal cell from DNA damage produced by light and UV radiation....

The evolutionary origins of the genetic point centromere in the brewer's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a member of the order Saccharomycetales, are still unknown. Competing hypotheses suggest that t...

Postdoctoral position in Yeast Evolutionary Genomics Hosting unit Laboratory of Computational, Quantitative, and Synthetic Biology (CQSB). The CQSB is an interdisciplinary research unit within the ...

Zhang et al. identify a regulatory mechanism for how cells adapt to nutrient scarcity through widespread −1 ribosomal frameshifts, culminating in accelerated mRNA decay. This process, dependent on codon optimality and conserved across species, establishes direct feedback coupling the translation of new proteins with the stability of the mRNA that encodes for them.

Pritzker Molecular Engineering researchers led by Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell showed that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune reaction associated with multiple sclerosis in a laboratory setting.

Many traits of interest in biology evolved long ago and are fixed in a particular species, distinguishing it from other sister taxa. Elucidating the mechanisms underlying such ancient traits has been ...

Unlike transformation, cytoduction (mating without nuclear fusion) is efficient at introducing plasmids into high-diversity libraries with minimal impact on population diversity.

Phoenician civilization thrived across the Mediterranean for more than 1,000 years.