That’s the promise of biomanufacturing based on microbes, which involves using microorganisms to create valuable resources from renewable resources rather than using compounds found in fossil fuels.

Using digital blueprints of the metabolism of microbes, scientists can simulate expensive and time-intensive experiments set in space, power plants and farm fields.

“We’ve learnt a lot about a small number of species,” Jensen says. But “for a lot of bacteria, there’s nothing for a language model, for an AI to read”. The microbes important for huma ...

In mirror bacteria, however, the molecules of life are – as you might’ve guessed from the name – mirrored. At least, theoretically; no one’s actually made any mirror lifeforms yet.

After more than two decades of analysis, researchers from Montana State University have finally revealed how three microbes ...

Studies have associated microbes with a lower incidence of cancer, heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, asthma, depression, autism, irritable bowel syndrome, colic, Parkinson's and many allergies.

On Thursday January 30th, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are doing a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International ...

Blaise Manga Enuh, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) After so many years learning how microbes work, researchers are now digitally recreating their inner workings to tackle ...

The development of antibiotics was a breakthrough in medicine. But while they can save lives, they have a dark side. Microbes resistant to the drugs were responsible for more than one million deaths ...

Every year, US dairy producers churn out billions of pounds of cheese—over 14 billion in 2023 alone. As that cheese heads to ...

Now, a University of Houston study of hemp microbes, published in the journal Scientific Reports, may help scientists create special mixtures of helpful microbes to make hemp plants produce more ...