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Metabolic cooperation in a social Baker’s yeast community. Pictured is a two-day old yeast community that grows as a colony. Different colours indicate cells producing and consuming different metabolites and nutrients.

Social yeast cells prefer to work with close relatives to make our beer, bread & wine

26 Oct 2015

Baker’s yeast cells living together in communities help feed each other, but leave incomers from the same species to die from starvation, according...

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Pombe

New database for vital model organism launched

28 Nov 2011

The database, PomBase, important new tool for scientists researching fission yeast.

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