Over two years, clumps of single-celled yeast grew into a multicellular structure that could explain how living organisms developed on early Earth. Ben Panko. October 1, 2021.

Early single-celled life may have serendipitously transformed into multicellular forms to make the most of resources, suggests a lab study revealing that when brewer's yeast cells clump together ...

In 2023, the group uncovered how a single-celled model organism called snowflake yeast could evolve multicellularity over 3,000 generations. However, one of the major limitations to their ...

Early single-celled life may have serendipitously transformed into multicellular forms to make the most of resources, suggests a lab study revealing that when brewer's yeast cells clump together ...

Scientists are conducting a long-term experiment on evolution to investigate how single-celled organisms could evolve into multicellular lifeforms. After thousands of generations, their yeast grew ...

The researchers took brewer’s yeast, a single-celled organism often used in lab experiments. They placed the yeast in a liquid and, at the end of each day, centrifuged the various yeast cultures.

This post is an unexpected sequel to a post I published last month about how single-celled microbes can evolve into multicellular bodies. Here’s a quick recap of that story. Life became ...

In 2010, Ratcliff started working with brewer’s yeast, the single-celled fungus we use to make bread and beer. He repeatedly grew the yeast in liquid-filled tubes, shook them, ...

Baker’s yeast has become a sought-after pandemic commodity as people bake at home. But how much do you really know about this organism, a single-celled fungus that scientists call Saccharomyces ...

Yeast is not the simple single-celled microorganism we once thought, but a competitive killer. When starved of glucose, yeast releases a toxin that will poison other microorganisms that have ...

Early single-celled life may have serendipitously transformed into multicellular forms to make the most of resources, suggests a lab study revealing that when brewer's yeast cells clump together ...