NUS Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Engineering Colour-Sensing Yeast

Optogenetics: Controlling yeast with light

NUS boffins use light to control engineered yeast for biotechnology breakthroughs, making biological manufacturing more predictable. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NUS researchers engineer color-sensing yeast in scientific breakthrough

Baker’s yeast, the microorganism behind bread, beer and numerous biotechnology processes, has been given a new kind of vision. Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have engineered a single yeast strain that can detect and respond independently to red and blue light. The advance gives scientists a way to control genetic activity, chemical […]

NUS Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Engineering Colour-Sensing Yeast

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have engineered baker's yeast to sense and respond to red and blue light. This breakthrough enables scientists to control cell behaviour using light, opening exciting new doors for programmable and predictable biological manufacturing.