Changes in genes have been linked to the development of different diseases for a while. However, it's not exactly clear what ...

A research team at The University of Osaka revealed that the loss of heterochromatin can cause a chain reaction leading to ...

Scientists have hit a major milestone in a 15-year project trying to build a completely synthetic yeast genome. Reporting in a bumper crop of new papers, the team has engineered viable yeast cells ...

Live imaging analyses in budding yeast reveal that calorie restriction and overexpression of the mRNA binding protein Ssd1 both block deleterious age-dependent iron uptake as a mechanism to extend ...