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Dutch researchers make breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: 'More ...


New discoveries in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at UAB in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, have discovered the structure of the PPC descarboxilase (PPCDC) enzyme present in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a very important ...


RNA interference found in budding yeasts

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical ...


Researchers demonstrate that messenger RNA are lost in translation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine assistant professor in the Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Jeff Coller, Ph.D., and his team discovered that messenger RNA (mRNA) predominately degrade on ribosomes, fundamentally ...


Scientists discover gene mutation responsible for hereditary neuroendocrine tumor

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Utah researchers and their colleagues have identified the gene that is mutated in a hereditary form of a rare neuroendocrine tumor called paraganglioma (PGL). The gene, called hSDH5, is required for activation ...


Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose ...


Wild about the evolution of domesticated yeast

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It lives all around us and is probably one of the earliest domesticated organisms. Humans have been using it for tens of thousands of years. There is evidence that the Ancient Egyptians used it for baking ...