This pantry staple is a secret weapon for plant-based cooking. MICHELLE LEE PHOTOGRAPHY/GETTY IMAGES Nutritional yeast—or “nooch,” as it’s lovingly referred to by fans—is an indispensable ingredient ...

Scientists discovered that baker’s yeast can survive harsh Mars-like conditions, revealing how simple life forms adapt under ...

For life on planet Earth, all roads inevitably lead to death, but they’re not all paved the same. This is what Nan Hao, an associate professor in molecular biology at the University of California, San ...

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Can cells be engineered to slow their aging? The answer, explained in a new article in the journal Science, is yes. A team of researchers at UC San Diego managed to reengineer a gene circuit that ...

Caloric restriction (CR) is known to extend life-span in many species, and is thought to work by slowing metabolism and thus the generation of toxic reactive oxygen species. In the 22 September ...

Cells are in constant contact with neighboring cells—releasing and consuming metabolites from their surrounding environment. Now, new research studied chronological aging in yeast to reveal a ...

Yeast are single-celled organisms, but their lives are far from solitary. “Microbes love communities,” said Markus Ralser, a biologist at the Francis Crick Institute and senior author of the study.

Scientists treated the yeast, known scientifically as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with 100 millimolar sodium perchlorate alone ...