Sentences with phrase «yeast cell cycle»

This project — in collaboration with Texas A & M University — involves screening small molecules for specific effects on the yeast cell cycle that correlate with longevity.

If it was, scientists could extrapolate a lot of what was known about the yeast cell cycle into the still - mysterious human cell cycle.

Upon joining the lab, Lee chose a high - risk project — «it sounded like more fun,» she says — aimed at determining whether a key gene in the yeast cell cycle, cdc2, was also present in human cells.

Not exact matches

He spent his last year as a Lisbon student studying cell - cycle regulation in yeast at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, with an Erasmus scholarship from the European Commission.

The role of DNA topology in holding sister chromatids together before anaphase was investigated by analyzing the structure of a small circular minichromosome in cell cycle (cdc) mutants of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

She still does not know why he considered her at the time — «Maybe it was just my enthusiasm,» she wonders — but he nonetheless became her mentor as she studied the transcriptional activation of the cell - cycle regulated HO gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

While researching the life cycle of baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Gottschling's team figured out a way to label yeast so that they could spot genetic mistakes in daughter cells.

The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a prime organism for studying fundamental cellular processes, with the functions of many proteins important in the cell cycle and signaling networks found in human biology having first been discovered in yeast.

The studies on autophagy by Yoshinori Ohsumi, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016, and the discovery of cell cycle regulatory genes for which Leland Hartwell, Timothy Hunt and Paul Nurse received the same award in 2001, including the research of Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak on telomeres, telomerase and its protective effect on the chromosomes, were all made possible thanks to yeast.

In yeast cells, the cell division cycle takes only 1.5 hours — meaning yeast have a very rapid succession of generations.

Bruce Stillman DNA replication; chromatin assembly; biochemistry; yeast genetics; cancer; cell cycle

They found that like bacteria and budding yeast, H. salinarum controls its size by adding a constant volume between two events in the cell cycle.

Breeden, Prentice and Zhao, whose study appeared in the May 8 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, compared their new algorithm to other methods used to analyze microarray experiments designed to identify cell cycle genes in yeast.

Swanton was stunned to learn how similar fundamental cellular processes were between humans and yeast, and how cell - cycle regulation is related to cancer development.