Hegemann assumes that it's not
only yeast cells that use a multitool resembling the polarity site.
Not exact matches
But hang on to your moisturiser for now: the effects have been demonstrated
only in
yeast cells.
Dr Nadeau added «Our results are even more surprising because the cortex gene was previously thought to
only be involved in producing egg
cells in female insects, and is very similar to a gene that controls
cell division in everything from
yeast to humans.»
A
yeast retrotransposon called Ty3, the researchers have found, is especially judicious: it always inserts itself in safe places, outside genes rather than inside them, and
only near genes of which a
yeast cell has many copies.
Even simple baker's
yeast, which consists of
only one
cell to our billions, is playing a role in studies of how cancer treatments work.
In
yeast cells, the
cell division cycle takes
only 1.5 hours — meaning
yeast have a very rapid succession of generations.
Not
only that, but in the current issue of Molecular
Cell, the Lindquist lab has identified a new
yeast prion and shown that a segment of this protein also confers prionlike activity.
They're looking at growing antibodies not
only in mice, but also in insect, plant and
yeast cells.
In a screen of nearly 200,000 compounds, Tardiff and collaborators identified one chemical entity that not
only reversed alpha - synuclein toxicity in
yeast cells, but also partially rescued neurons in the model nematode C. elegans and in rat neurons.
The study relates to a particular type of vaccine (killed) against a particular virus, influenza, though the findings might hold true for other killed vaccines and for those vaccines consisting
only of proteins produced by GM in bacteria,
yeast or insect
cells, against diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV) and human papilloma virus (HPV, the causative agent of cervical cancer).
They blow up because Maselko's technology instructs the
cell to generate an immense amount of proteins caused by that particular gene — but
only when the engineered
yeast mate with wild versions.