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Microbial consortia for the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals
IntroductionAs part of the multiform effort to obviate fossil-based resource consumption, biomass represents a viable source of carbon feedstock for use in the production of materials and chemicals. While theoretically carbon neutral, biomass can present…
Microbial assisted zinc biofortification of wheat germplasm for the amelioration of zinc malnutrition
IntroductionProduction of nutritious and safe food in sufficient quantities for ensuring food availability and nutritional…
Microbial cities and the future of self-healing concrete
Comment Published: 08 July 2025 Nature Cities (2025)Cite this article Subjects Biocement, a product of…
Industry Partnerships with Iowa State University to Support New Scale-Up Facility
A new bioindustrial manufacturing scale-up facility has been designed to help advance innovative biobased solutions and products from the lab to commercialization. BioMADE, a U.S. Department […]
Space Station Stem Cells Successfully Produce Healthy Mice
Decades of space exploration have resulted in the discovery of known stressors to animals (including humans) during spaceflight: radiation, microgravity, hypergravity, and circadian rhythm disruption. […]
Brain Abnormalities in Children Tied to Prenatal Pesticide Exposure
A study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine has found evidence of […]
Triangle structured illumination microscopy developed for sustained live-cell super-resolution imaging
3I-SIM enables faster and gentler live-cell organelle imaging. a, b. Comparison of photobleaching on fluorescent proteins under different illumination modes and excitation strategies between conventional […]
Model reroutes livestock trucks to reduce risk of infection
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study from North Carolina State University looked at reducing between-farm infections by modeling a new way of routing the […]
Study shows sound can make beer brew faster
A look behind the scenes of a University of Otago experiment that found sound can speed up the fermentation process of beer by 21–31 hours. […]
Microfluidic platform mimics blood microenvironment to monitor parasite spread by ticks
The in vitro platform enables acquisition of composite confocal images showing B. microti mitochondria stained with MitoTracker Green inside red blood cells (RBCs, phase contrast). […]
COMET’s Rocket Speed: AI-Designed Nanoparticles Accelerate mRNA Therapies
Using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers headed by a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles […]