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Humanized Yeast: Scientists Create Yeast With Important Human Genes
SciTech Daily ^ | AUGUST 6, 2022 | DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Posted on 08/06/2022 10:30:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Human muscle genes were successfully inserted into the DNA of baker’s yeast by biotechnologist Pascale Daran-Lapujade and her team at Delft University of Technology. For the first time, scientists have effectively inserted a crucial human characteristic into a yeast cell. Their research was recently published in the journal Cell Reports.

Daran-group Lapujade’s previously succeeded in designing artificial chromosomes that operate as a DNA platform for building new functions into yeast. They wanted to test how far they could go with adding several human genes and complete metabolic pathways, and whether the cells could still operate as a whole.

“What if we take the same group of genes that controls the sugar consumption and energy production of human muscles into yeast?” Daran-Lapujade wondered. “Can we humanize such an essential and complex function in yeast?”

Engineering a humanized yeast was surprisingly simple for Ph.D. students and co-first authors Francine Boonekamp and Ewout Knibbe.

“We didn’t just transplant the human genes into yeast, we also removed the corresponding yeast genes and completely replaced them with the human muscle genes”, Daran-Lapujade explains. “You might think that you cannot exchange the yeast version with the human one, because it’s such a specific and tightly regulated process both in human and yeast cells. But it works like a charm!”

(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: justdamn; yeast

1 posted on 08/06/2022 10:30:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Cannibal bread eaters.


2 posted on 08/06/2022 10:35:02 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin
“Can we humanize such an essential and complex function in yeast?”... to get people accustomed to being cannibals?
3 posted on 08/06/2022 10:36:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: DannyTN

I knew I had to be quick on the draw to make that point!


4 posted on 08/06/2022 10:37:40 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: BenLurkin

Great! A beer that can tell me when I’ve had too much and a bread that can tell me how that Keto diet is just a fad.


5 posted on 08/06/2022 10:39:10 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: DannyTN

Yes. Cannibalism. The Days of Noah
Eliminate meat I Timothy Chapter 4 “Abstaining from meats”

And instead go after human flesh. Lucifer full out in the open.


6 posted on 08/06/2022 10:39:17 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: BenLurkin

These weirdos know how to get a rise out of me.


7 posted on 08/06/2022 10:40:45 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Kill a Commie for Mommy, proud NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon.)
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To: BenLurkin
Coming to a grocery store near you...

Gain-of-Function Bicep Bread?

8 posted on 08/07/2022 12:01:43 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: BenLurkin

...Yeasterday, the moon was blue
And every crazy day
Brought something new to do
And I used my magic age
As if it were a wand
And never saw the waste
And emptiness beyond... *

* (apologies to Charles Aznavour, Georges Garvarentz and
Herbert Kretzmer)


9 posted on 08/07/2022 12:15:17 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BenLurkin

safe and effective...


10 posted on 08/07/2022 12:34:25 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: BenLurkin

I was told to stay away from yeast infections !!


11 posted on 08/07/2022 4:09:36 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: BenLurkin

where they could compare the expression of human genes in yeast and in their native human muscle environment using lab-grown human tissue cells.

So a useless experiment, then?
Why eff around with yeast?


12 posted on 08/07/2022 4:14:21 AM PDT by Adder (Dumblecrats: Spending $$ we don't have on crap we don't need for people who pay no taxes.)
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To: BenLurkin

They want to make plants that feel pain? Sick, sick sick science. /s <= for the idiots who don’t know sarcasm when they see it.


13 posted on 08/07/2022 4:24:43 AM PDT by Ikeon (A man who would cut off his junk would gladly help someone cut off yours. )
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To: BenLurkin

how many unborn babies did they have to murder to make this abomination of a result?

Biblical perspective...
Yeast= leaven= sin


14 posted on 08/07/2022 4:33:27 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: maddog55

What will a yeast infection be eating?


15 posted on 08/07/2022 4:36:28 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: BenLurkin

The question is ; Why? The second question is; when do we lock up these loons? This is how Covid happens.


16 posted on 08/07/2022 4:41:56 AM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: BenLurkin

17 posted on 08/07/2022 6:45:11 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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