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Synthetic sex in yeast promises safer medicines for people

  • Written by Ian Haydon, Doctoral Student in Biochemistry, University of Washington
imageWhat can mating yeast tell us about new drugs?Conor Lawless, CC BY

Our old friend Saccharomyces cerevisiae – the yeast that’s helped people bake bread and brew beer for millennia – has just had its sex life upgraded.

Bioengineers at the University of Washington have reprogrammed the mating habits of this single-celled organism,...

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