The Yeast Art Project arose more than a decade ago as an unexpected offshoot of Boeke’s “Build-a-Genome” course at Johns Hopkins University. Students learned how to build synthetic DNA, and this ...

According to research published Thursday in the journal Cell, humans have been domesticating the yeast used to make beer — breeding it for the properties that suit our needs — since the 16th ...

Classical yeast genetics remains an essential element in discovering and characterizing the genes that ... The art and design of genetic screens: yeast. Nat Rev Genet 2, 659 –668 (2001 ...

In his spare time Leeuwenhoek used his lenses to observe and record detailed drawings of everything he could, including very tiny objects, like protozoa, bacteria, and yeast.

Cooking is arguably both an art and a science — and if you're a physicist with some 4,500-year-old yeast in your cupboard, then it's a history lesson, too.