The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has become an important model for evolutionary genomics owing to the development of high-throughput sequencing technologies. Comparative genomics analysis of ...

Yeast is a fungus. Bakers and beer brewers use some species of yeast in food production. Yeast is present in a number of popular foods and beverages, from candy to kombucha. Many people with a yeast ...

Nutritional yeast, the cheesy-tasting cousin of brewer’s or baker’s yeast, has gained popularity in recent years due to the growing interest in plant-based diets. Nutritional yeast is rich in ...

In an amazing but slightly weird world first, scientists have formed a feedback loop between common, baking and brewing yeast, and a computer. The computer can trigger the yeast to produce a protein, ...

Yeast infections are common and often easily treated. While an abnormal smell is often associated with various infections, this is generally not the case with vaginal yeast infections. According to ...

People can have sex with a yeast infection, but it can be painful. It may also worsen symptoms and lengthen the time for healing. In some cases, a person may pass on the infection. Yeast infections ...

You know how to spot yeast infection symptoms if you've ever had one: itching, burning, and clumpy, white, cottage-cheese looking gunk in your underwear. Yes, yuck—but also, oh so common, with most ...