Yeast can live with human genes
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/05/yeast-can-live-human-genes
Yeast and humans have been evolving along separate paths for 1 billion years, but there’s still a strong family resemblance, a new study demonstrates. After inserting more than 400 human genes into yeast cells one at a time, researchers found that almost 50% of the genes functioned and enabled the fungi to survive.
Systematic humanization of yeast genes reveals conserved functions and genetic modularity. , , , , , and Science 22 May 2015: 921–925.