Scientists Take Major Step Towards Creating Synthetic Life
This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.
Researchers develop engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strain for optimized production of carotenoids
cerevisiae yeast strain capable of selectively overproducing carotenoids. They redesigned the genomic sequence and critical ...
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Final synthetic yeast chromosome completed, paving way for biotech advances
More information: Hugh D. Goold et al, Construction and iterative redesign of synXVI a 903 kb synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024 ...
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Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells under microscope
Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right, budding ...