Sentences with phrase «mutated yeast cells»

Researchers at SciLifeLab have shown that a high - throughput method using microfluidic droplet sorting of mutated yeast cells can be used to improve the production of industrial enzymes.

Then they expose these mutated yeast cells to a whole range of chemical compounds used in cancer therapy to find which ones will kill them.

Not exact matches

And researchers at the «Seattle project», an effort funded by the National Cancer Institute to find new anticancer drugs, are mutating genes in yeast cells — such as the ATM gene or the mismatch repair genes — that often lead to cancer in humans.

Through synthetic viability screening, we discovered that histone H4 K16 deacetylation drives the sensitivity of yeast cells to camptothecin and that inactivation of this pathway by mutating H4 K16 or the genes SIR1 - 4 suppresses much of the hypersensitivity of tof1 ∆ strains towards this agent.