An agar plate with yeast growing on is put under a microscope to allow scientists to see individual yeast cells. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right, budding ...

The photograph on the left shows fission yeast cells in their resting or G0 phase and the photograph on the right are of yeast cells in growth phase and undergoing cell division. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Microbes make a home among the starch grains of your sourdough starter. Daniel Veghte, CC BY-SA Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for ...

Step outside, and a vast array of multicellular life greets you wherever you go—from the mushrooms and trees of our forests to the fish and seaweeds of our oceans. But for much of life’s more than 3.5 ...