Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right, budding ...

Yeast is a good model system for studying ageing. The researchers can easily determine the age of the cells by counting the bud scars, formed when they divide and form new cells by budding (left). As ...

This 3D image was created by stacking a set of optically sliced images taken using a confocal fluorescence microscope. It can be seen that eGFP is immobilized along the budding yeast's characteristic ...