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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Yeast as a model organism for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries

Ian Macreadie
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School of Science
RMIT University
Bundoora, Vic. 3083, Australia
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Email: ian.macreadie@rmit.edu.au

Microbiology Australia 38(2) 55-57 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA17027
Published: 15 March 2017

Abstract

Considerable knowledge about how we function has come through the use of the unicellular microbe yeast. Yeasts are eukaryotes like us and the similarity between us and yeasts is readily visible at the molecular level. This places yeast as an important tool for industries involved in health research, including pharmaceutical and nutraceutical discovery.


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