Microbes are clever little buggers —- for decades, they've been used by the mining industry to efficiently extract some 25 percent of the world’s gold and copper in a more environmentally friendly ...

Speculation That Microbial Fermentation May Overcome Mammalian Processing Is Premature Benefits of microbial fermentation have stirred debate about it potentially overtaking mammalian processing. But ...

Predicting the future is never easy, and hindsight often shows how wrong even skilled individuals can be at predicting just 50 years ahead. Thomas J. Watson, then chairman of IBM, made his famous ...

Researchers have been exploring how bacteria can convert organic waste into useful products. They describe for the first time how the chain elongation processes are carried out by microorganisms under ...

Making sense of the complex metabolic activity of microbial communities is no mean feat. Understanding the stoichiometry and reaction kinetics of this activity typically requires precise ...

Microbial communities are complex, dynamic systems in which the behavior and survival of each strain is inexorably linked to every other strain. 2 These complex microbial ecosystems can form intricate ...