{"682922":{"#nid":"682922","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Large yeast clusters generate natural circulatory flows through metabolic activity to bypass diffusion limits","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and India\u0027s National Center for Biological Sciences have found that yeast clusters, when grown beyond a certain size, spontaneously generate fluid flows powerful enough to ferry nutrients deep into their interior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn the study, \u0022Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast,\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adr6399\u0022\u003Epublished\u003C\/a\u003E in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/em\u003E, the research team\u0026nbsp;\u2014 which included Georgia Tech Ph.D. scholar\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEmma Bingham\u003C\/strong\u003E, Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EG. Ozan Bozdag\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam C. Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, and Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2014 used experimental evolution to determine whether non-genetic physical processes can enable nutrient transport in multicellular yeast lacking evolved transport adaptations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story also appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/yeast-shows-physics-can-give-rise-to-multicellular-life-sans-mutations\/article69720372.ece\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Hindu\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and India\u0027s National Center for Biological Sciences have found that yeast clusters, when grown beyond a certain size, spontaneously generate fluid flows powerful enough to ferry nutrients deep into their interior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn the study, \u0022Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast,\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adr6399\u0022\u003Epublished\u003C\/a\u003E in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/em\u003E, the research team\u0026nbsp;\u2014 which included Georgia Tech Ph.D. scholar\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEmma Bingham\u003C\/strong\u003E, Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EG. Ozan Bozdag\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam C. Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, and Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2014 used experimental evolution to determine whether non-genetic physical processes can enable nutrient transport in multicellular yeast lacking evolved transport adaptations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story also appeared at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/yeast-shows-physics-can-give-rise-to-multicellular-life-sans-mutations\/article69720372.ece\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Hindu\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-06-27 14:47:44","changed_gmt":"2025-06-30 17:42:41","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Phys.org","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-06-large-yeast-clusters-generate-natural.html#google_vignette","dateline":{"date":"2025-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"180606","name":"multicellular yeast"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"192250","name":"cos-microbial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}