A team of scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker’s yeast for the first time. The human genes in question ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Maine-based Mainiacal Yeast Labs — which according to their website specialize in providing “unique yeast and bacteria” to ...

As far as beer ingredients go, hops get all the glory, malt is having its moment, but yeast is the unsung hero of beer. Yeast is what makes beer beer. This little microorganism – part of the fungus ...

During the day, Sena Rayos is a full-time student, working toward her doctorate. At night, her focus is beer. But her relationship with the sudsy concoction is all business. In May, she launched Alamo ...

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates ...

“Our motivation is to understand the first principles of genome fundamentals by building synthetic genomes,” says co-author and synthetic biologist Patrick Yizhi Cai (@caiyizhi) of the University of ...