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[Chemobiology at happy hour: yeast as a model for pharmacological screening].
Medecine sciences : M/S - 1 Dec 2014
Voisset Cécile, Blondel Marc
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Since its discovery and description by Louis Pasteur, the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which was used for thousands of years for alcoholic fermentation and as a leavening agent, has become a popular model system in biology. One of the reasons for this popularity is the strong conservation from yeast to human of most of the pathways controlling cell growth and fate. In addition, at least 30 % of human...
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