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 ...

Ads. Tinder. "Game of Thrones." Flowers in a garden. But just because we see it everywhere doesn't mean that we can definitively explain why it's everywhere. Sexual reproduction is a costly endeavor: ...

Yeast don’t have much of a social life; they’re single-celled fungi, after all. But yeast are, indeed, social. Social interaction among humans might center around protein shakes and discussion of ...

You can thank an ancient fruit fly, a stroke of dumb luck, and sex for your favorite cheese. New research published in Current Biology indicates that milk yeast evolved to be able to turn milk into ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Every plant, animal or other nucleus-containing cell also harbors an array of miniature “organs” that perform essential functions for the cell. In plants, for example, organelles ...