Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This is to develop a synthetic yeast strain that can be transformed on demand, making it industrial applications such as the mass production of advanced medicines to treat illnesses such as malaria and tuberculosis (TB).

How to install new capabilities in cells without interfering with their metabolic processes? A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Helmholtz Zentrum München have altered mammalian cells in such a way that they formed artificial compartments in which sequestered reactions could take place, allowing the detection of cells deep in the tissue and also their manipulation with magnetic fields.

Do your parents stress you out? Perhaps more than you think. A new study has suggested that, through alterations to genetic material in sperm, men who experience early-life stress may pass on physical and mental effects to their offspring.

As part of work recently published in Science Advances, a team of researchers from the Institute of Systems Biology at Yale University has built a microfluidic device to demonstrate that single cells preserve a memory of their mother's dynamic response to glucose limitation stress for multiple generations.

Researchers have published the first detailed picture and description of the 3-dimensional molecular structure of telomerase – a discovery that could enable better targeted drug screening and could result in more successful telomerase-related clinical therapeutics.

Target-based screening has been the method of choice in drug discovery for the past two decades, but phenotypic screening is having something of a renaissance. We look at the advantages and applications of both.

Scientists study link between chronotype and death, and find night owls are at greater risk of health complications and earlier death.

New research sheds light on neuronal communication and adds more detail to the current picture of brain cell communication at the synapse, and the role of the messenger molecule nitric oxide.

Despite its role in advancing genetics research, transgenic modification of animal models is an aging and costly technique. A new tool that leverages CRISPR technology may make the entire process simpler and more efficient.