Lab Oratory

By 2050, when the world’s population is expected to increase by two billion people, “scarce” crops—from the massively consumed Arabica coffee bean to the popular avocado—will be genetically modified in laboratories to endure market pressure and environmental challenges to provide solutions to the impending food scarcity crisis in a post-pandemic...

CRISPR/Cas9: A molecular Swiss army knife for simultaneous introduction of multiple genetic modifications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

A variety of techniques for strain engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have recently been developed. However, especially when multiple genetic manipulations are required, strain construction is still a time-consuming process. This study describes new CRISPR/Cas9-based approaches for easy, fast strain construction in yeast and explores their...