Modifying Baker's Yeast for Low-cost Detection of Fungal Pathogens (1 of 12) (IMAGE)

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Modifying Baker's Yeast for Low-cost Detection of Fungal Pathogens (1 of 12)

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Baker's yeast, modified to detect pathogens, grows in a petri dish in the Cornish Lab at Columbia University. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 28, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Ostrov at Columbia University in New York, NY, and colleagues was titled, 'A modular yeast biosensor for low-cost point-of-care pathogen detection.'

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