BUFFALO, N.Y. — They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do ...

Following the AI “AlphaFold,” which predicts protein structures, research on “virtual cells” aiming to simulate entire living ...

Endocytosis is an important cellular process through which cells internalize substances such as water and nutrients. These substances are first transported as cargo to the initial sorting compartment ...

Biologists have taken the genes that produce cannabinoids in weed and plugged them into yeast, making rare and novel compounds more accessible. Christopher Intagliata reports. The compounds THC and ...

For millennia, yeast has held a place at the table of history, transforming flour into bread, grapes into wine, and grain into beer. But yeast is much more than a building block for a good meal. It ...