A new method for chemically altering human urine could be used for producing medical implants and construction materials, ...

Scientists have developed an innovative method to produce and rapidly analyze a vast array of macrocyclic peptides, molecules ...

A team of researchers has turned ordinary yeast into tiny, glowing drug factories, creating and testing billions of ...

Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same yeast we use for bread and beer production.. This is to develop a synthetic ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and India's National Center for Biological Sciences have found that yeast clusters, when grown beyond a certain size, spontaneously generate fluid ...

Yeast not only causes fermentation—in some cases, the microorganisms can actually purify water. Even if MIT researchers didn’t know exactly how the process worked, the results were plain to see.