Despite decades of global population growth, a global food crisis seems to be imminent again. Food productivity has been cut severely due to prolonged abnormal weather from intensifying climate change ...

For years, the biologics industry has struggled with inefficient microbial expression systems for producing proteins and antibodies that they need to manufacture new biopharmaceuticals. Difficulties ...

At the 2026 BiOS conference in San Francisco, researchers presented a biosensing platform aimed at improving how living cells and tissues are monitored during drug bioprocessing. Known as TissueSense, ...

When microbiomes are diverse and balanced, they keep our food safe, nutritious, and sustainable, and our planet healthy—but the quality of these networks is declining across the whole system. This can ...

Researchers explore how acetic acid bacteria shapes emergent properties of sourdough, with implications across complex microbial systems. When millions of people went into lockdown during the pandemic ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability, researchers demonstrate the successful engineering of a biological process to "upcycle" poly ...

A research team has developed a synthetic microbial consortium that completely reduces soluble uranium [U(VI)] to insoluble U(IV) within 48 hours, showing nearly twice the efficiency of a ...

This is the Volume 2 of a series of Research Topics and you can explore Volume 1 here Microorganisms are ubiquitous and can be found in various ...

Much of the beauty—and challenge—of biology lies in its complexity. That's especially true in the microbial world, where ...