Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an ...

Bacteria in food can make you seriously ill, which is why it is so important for the facilities that produce your food to ...

A U.S.-based biotech firm has found a way to turn carbon emissions into ethanol and other chemicals using bacteria. LanzaTech, which has been operating at a commercial scale since 2018, not only ...

Bacteria are rapidly emerging as a new class of “living medicines” used to kill cancer cells. We’re still a long way from a ...

Scientists at North Carolina State University have developed a method to precisely edit a single gene in a targeted bacterial species within a microbial community, using viruses that attack bacteria ...

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are investigating a way to recover the metallic content of EV batteries with bioengineered bacteria. The new method involves processing spent ...

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In A Nutshell Living detectors: Researchers modified E. coli bacteria to light up when they sense acetic acid, the chemical ...

Plant cell cultures are an attractive alternative to cultivating whole plants for obtaining natural compounds, but many ...

Can bacteria that survive washing and disinfection in food production facilities spread antimicrobial resistance?