Nature News reports today that a team has generated yeast cells with partly synthetic chromosomes.
Cadus' specialty is yeast cells -- the same yeast that bakers and brewers use.
Allylix gets around this by engineering the genes for new biological pathways into yeast cells.
Respiring yeast cells release carbon dioxide which gets trapped and so forms tiny gas bubbles.
FORBES: Why Lawsuits Over Subway's Short Footlong Sandwiches Are Baloney
Similarly, in yeast cells high levels of a gene called sir2 made them live 50% longer than usual.
In technical terms, raw dough is a stiff suspension of starch granules, gluten proteins and live yeast cells.
FORBES: Why Lawsuits Over Subway's Short Footlong Sandwiches Are Baloney
This emerged in the lab of MIT biologist Leonard Guarente, whose team spent years counting thousands of yeast cells under a microscope.
The team then enlisted the help of yeast cells to link the cassettes in the correct order to produce the finished genomes.
In 1993 she and her colleagues began inserting genes into yeast cells to coax them into producing proteins that form the exterior coat of the nastier HPV strains.
When Sinclair's team fed resveratrol to yeast cells, fruit flies, and worms, the animals lived 14% to 70% longer, they reported in two studies in the journal Nature.
For instance, Unilever scientists have spent five years working with yeast cells that replicate human taste receptors, and then extracting substances from food to see how they might trigger these receptors.
The reason to think Merck may succeed, argues Tim Anderson of Sanford Bernstein, a research firm, is that it has found a way to make biosimilars by culturing them inside yeast cells.
Biologicals are made in living cells--usually bacteria, yeast or cultured mammalian cells that have been reprogrammed by the introduction of new genetic material to synthesize the drug, which is then highly purified.
San Francisco and ETH Zurich have developed a method that enables them to precisely control gene expression in individual cells of yeast.
FORBES: Cyborg Yeast Have Their Genes Controlled By Computer
"Insight into yeast can give us insight into human cells, " says Cadus' Broach.
应用推荐