Microorganisms are increasingly being engineered to manufacture valuable compounds ranging from medicines and food ...

Canadian universities are helping to build the scientific foundations for microbial biofuels through research spanning algal ...

Microorganisms are increasingly being engineered to manufacture valuable compounds ranging from medicines and food ingredients to biofuels and industrial chemicals. However, turning microbes into ...

Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo have joined forces to take on a pressing environmental problem by using synthetic biology to turn plastic waste into valuable resources.

Q | What drew you to biotechnology? A single laboratory visit changed everything. In high school, I toured the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Institute of Himalayan Bioresource ...

For decades, Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae have dominated industrial bioproduction. Yet Gram-positive bacteria—particularly actinomycetes ...

Genetic manipulation of a puzzling, miniscule bacteria that has lived in human mouths at least since the Middle Stone Age is elucidating the genes needed for its unusual lifestyle. These ...

The study systematically revealed that gut microbial genetic variations at the single-nucleotide resolution influence host cognitive exploratory behavior by regulating metabolites. The study further ...

Patescibacteria are a group of puzzling, tiny microbes whose manner of staying alive has been difficult to fathom. Scientists can cultivate only a few types, yet these bacteria are a diverse group ...