The quest to transform biology into a tool for sustainable production is making strides in the field of metabolic engineering ...

The balls are, in effect, grown in an activated sludge. Formed from a hygroscopic polymer, each ball absorbs a mixture of fluid and bacteria, layering up until it has a complement of heterotrophic and ...

Any organism uses organic molecules as raw material. Heterotrophs use food and autotrophs use carbon dioxide, minerals, water and all organisms use oxygen (for respiration) as raw materials.

Newly set up tanks can require considerable time to become biologically mature—the bacteria that convert harmful fish wastes to less harmful ones can take weeks or even months to fully establish.

But as the current rise ... Pandrug-Resistant Bacteria from the War in Ukraine Are Extremely Pathogenic Nov. 25, 2024 — It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in ...

It usually makes use of organisms with rapid generation times and small physical size, often microbes, to observe phenomena that in large multicellular organisms occur too slowly. Based on a ...

Non-model organisms are organisms that have not been selected by the research community for extensive study either for historic reasons, or because they lack the features that make model organisms ...

Domestic and industrial activities produce millions of tonnes of waste, and even buried waste leaks pollutants that carry ...

Though the study is yet to be peer reviewed, its conclusions help confine speculations over how long this one clonal organism has stood in place, which have ranged wildly from several thousand to more ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Photosynthetic organisms have an enormous influence on our environment through their effects on the development of other life on Earth and ...