Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Heil said she originally expected to find Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as brewer's yeast, which is commonly used in baking and is central to much of her lab's research.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2026
The yeast species the researchers used, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, carries 16 chromosomes and is a much bigger challenge than bacteria, which typically have a single chromosome and a fraction as much DNA.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 8, 2023
Another, BioSentinel, will measure the effects of radiation on the single-celled yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2022
By 1997, the genome sequences of two important model organisms were available: the bacterium Escherichia coli K12 and the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Writing in Nature, Srinivasan and Smolke4 report an alternative way to make tropane alkaloids that could relieve these limitations — using engineered strains of the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
From Nature ● Sep. 1, 2020
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