Autophagy, the cell's essential housekeeping process, involves degrading and recycling damaged organelles, proteins, and other components to prevent clutter. This vital mechanism, found in all life ...

Against this backdrop, a research team from Japan recently focused on an autophagy pathway that degrades a part of the nucleus (macronucleophagy) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a species of yeast ...

“The whole point of condensates is to separate biological reactions to help them work efficiently, but now when you have ...

The secret to cellular youth may lie in maintaining a small nucleolus—a dense structure within the cell nucleus—according to investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. These findings were uncovered in ...

There’s something that just doesn’t sit right about “nutritional yeast.” Vegans have attempted to reclaim the words by giving it a nickname—nooch—but somehow that sounds off-center as well. At VegNews ...

From The Inquisitive Cook, by Anne Gardiner and Sue Wilson with the Exploratorium (Henry Holt and Co., 1998). Water temperature for activating yeast designed to be mixed with the dry ingredients in a ...

As anyone who’s ever had a yeast infection can attest, they’re an experience that’s best avoided. Also known as vaginal candidiasis, an overgrowth of yeast is their most common cause ...