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Microbes on the move

New method to search for extraterrestrial life: TU Berlin researchers discover simple test method to identify microbial movement

25-Apr-2025 - Movement is one of the clearest signs of life. Researchers at TU Berlin have now discovered that certain microbes react specifically to a chemical substance and actively move towards it - a principle that could help to detect life on other planets in the future. Their findings could have a ...

Microbes Astrobiology Bacillus subtilis
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Corynebacterium glutamicum – a hidden champion

Microbe of the Year 2025

30-Dec-2024 - The club-shaped Corynebacterium glutamicum is the Microbe of the Year 2025. This bacterium produces amino acids that would fill a freight train stretching across Germany. Corynebacterium glutamicum is considered a “hidden champion” among bacteria, an unknown world market leader: The bacterium ...

Microbes amino acids bacteria
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Turning waste into microbial gold for a sustainable future

Zymofix secures €2 million to scale microbial solutions for sustainable agriculture and beyond

13-Nov-2024 - Zymofix, a pioneer in industrial biotechnology, has secured €2 million in funding led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with participation from The Nest Family Office and VP Capital. This strategic investment will fuel Zymofix’s efforts to scale its proprietary fermentation technology, turning ...

Microbes agriculture biomass
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Gut microbiome influences location of immune cells

Microbial communities shape the immune system

24-Sep-2024 - Researchers at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center of Max Delbrück Center and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have found that microbial communities in the mouse GI tract are unevenly distributed, which influences immune cell populations. The work was published in“Gut ...

Microbes flow cytometry gut bacteria
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Power-to-vitamins: microbes produce folate from simple basic ingredients

Biotechnology team obtains valuable byproduct in protein produc-tion

16-Sep-2024 - Take some carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen plus electricity from renewable sources – a bacterium and baker’s yeast need little more to produce proteins for human nourishment and the essential vitamin B9 in a conventional laboratory bioreactor system. This was the result achieved by a research ...

Microbes acetate bacteria
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Upcycling excess carbon dioxide with tiny microbes

Scientists specially engineered microbes to turn carbon dioxide into chemicals that are potential building blocks to pharmaceuticals

03-Sep-2024 - While some microbes can make people sick or spoil food, others are critical for survival. These tiny organisms can also be engineered to make specific molecules. Researchers reporting in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering have rewired one such microbe to help tackle greenhouse gases in the ...

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New tool maps microbial diversity with unprecedented details

The innovative tool allows the analysis of structural genomic variations in microbial populations

26-Jun-2024 - Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen developed the groundbreaking tool SynTracker. SynTracker expands traditional microbial analysis by considering genomic structural variation to complement existing SNP-based methods. This innovation reveals more precision and depths of ...

Microbes evolution genome analysis
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How buildings influence the microbiome and thus human health

Previously little-studied effects of modern buildings on microbial colonisation

30-Apr-2024 - Over the last 20 years, the life sciences have come to realise that all living beings - from the simplest animal and plant organisms to humans - live in close association with a multitude of microorganisms. Together with the multicellular host organism, these symbiotic bacteria, viruses and ...

Microbes bacteria microbes
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Scientists develop artificial ‘worm gut’ to break down plastics

Hopes for a nature-inspired way to tackle global plastic pollution

13-Feb-2024 - By feeding worms with plastics and cultivating microbes found in their guts, researchers from NTU’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) have demonstrated a new method to accelerate plastic ...

Microbes biodegradation gut bacteria
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Microbes could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers

A coating protects nitrogen-fixing bacteria: Start-up to commercialise coated bacteria for large-scale use in regenerative agriculture

21-Nov-2023 - Production of chemical fertilizers accounts for about 1.5 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. MIT chemists hope to help reduce that carbon footprint by replacing some chemical fertilizer with a more sustainable source — bacteria. Bacteria that can convert nitrogen gas to ammonia ...

Microbes agriculture ammonia
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