In researching the formation of these multicellular organisms, Ratcliff used a strain of snowflake yeast with budding “daughters” that tend to cling to their parents, allowing the creation of small ...

Ask most home bakers what yeast does, and you'll probably hear that it makes bread rise. That's like saying a computer lets you type — it's true, but it's also a lot more than that. Yeast is a living ...

The science of yeast genetics was still in its infancy some 30 years ago, and one of its thorniest problems wouldn't go away: How do diploid yeast cells transform themselves into haploid cells, so ...