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Single-celled yeast evolve to form multicellular snowflakes

A team of researchers from the United States have coaxed single-celled, brewer’s yeast – Saccharomyces cerevisiae – into evolving as multicellular, snowflake-like, groups of yeast. They’re called snowflake yeast and have even evolved to use apoptosis – programmed, cell suicide – to create new, multicellular, life. “We see some cells …

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