BUFFALO, N.Y. — They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do ...

Humans and baker's yeast have more in common than meets the eye, including an important mechanism that helps ensure DNA is copied correctly, reports a pair of studies. The findings visualize for the ...

Baker's yeast as we know it today is a living single-celled fungus given the name of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. There are over 1,500 species of yeast and this one in particular is most likely a ...

Yeast cells. Computer illustration of budding yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Known as baker's or brewer's yeast, this fungus consists of single vegetative cells. The larger 'mother' cells are ...

Discover how a mutated form of baker's yeast is a strong contender for replacing petroleum in 2,3-butanediol production for ...

A study on the human muscles and yeast titled "Full humanization of the glycolytic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" has been published in the journal Cell Reports. Researchers from Delft ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has tightened our social circles and narrowed the scope of our lives in ways no one imagined just a year ago. But the lockdown also brought an unexpected solace: Everyone, it ...

Researchers have successfully engineered common baker's yeast to produce D-lysergic acid (DLA), an ingredient used in medicine for dementia and Parkinson's Disease. Around the world, more people are ...

KANSAS CITY — The home baking renaissance that unfolded as consumers locked down to slow the spread of COVID-19 reversed a decades-long decline in demand for consumer yeast and created shortages at ...