A mass mating event in the lab reveals how yeast cells choose partners - and what predicts the success of their offspring.

It’s official: Sex is good for you. Well, at least it’s good for yeast. From an evolutionary standpoint, sexual reproduction seems to have many disadvantages over the asexual variety. It wastes time ...

Genome-editing approaches have been used to fuse 16 yeast chromosomes to produce yeast strains with only 1 or 2 chromosomes. Surprisingly, this fusion has little effect on cell fitness. To solve this ...