Sentences with phrase «mother yeast cell»
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The age - delaying action of caloric restriction may stunt the growth of yeast cells so that the mother cells and daughter cells are easily flushed out of the chamber, Anderson speculates.
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To determine which strains yielded increased lifespan, the researchers counted yeast cells, logging how many daughter cells a mother produced before it stopped dividing.
Most importantly, this alteration could be passed down from mother to daughter yeast cells.
William Ratcliff, a biologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and his collaborators have discovered a surprisingly simple route to multicellularity: a single mutation in yeast that adheres the mother cell to its daughter to create a snowflake - like shape.
To assess the breadth of such protein - based inheritance, the lab of Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist lab devised an unbiased screen that examines all proteins in yeast for those capable of producing stable phenotypes that are passed from mother to daughter cells for at least 100 generations.