University of Northern Iowa
Posted in Microbial Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Oct 19th, 2008
According to New Scientist, researchers in California are scaling up for industrial production a process to produce a synthetic strain of yeast engineered to produce a compound called artemisinin, which is used to treat malaria. The current process used to produce the medicine is expensive, but this new process has been optimized such that—within two [...]
Posted in Microbial Biotechnology on Oct 1st, 2008
Study Reveals an Oily Diet for Subsurface Life (10/1/2008)
Posted in Bioenergy, Microbial Biotechnology on Jan 31st, 2008
For most people, the name “E. coli†is synonymous with food poisoning and product recalls, but a professor in Texas A&M University’s chemical engineering department envisions the bacteria as a future source of energy, helping to power our cars, homes and more.
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Posted in Bioenergy, Microbial Biotechnology on Jan 27th, 2008
Researchers at the Biodesign Institute are using the tiniest organisms on the planet — bacteria — as a viable option to make electricity. In a new study featured in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues Cesar Torres and Bruce Rittmann have gained critical insights that may lead to commercialization [...]
Posted in Bioenergy, Microbial Biotechnology on Jan 2nd, 2008
The combination of beer, wastewater, microbes, fuel cells, high school students and teachers sounds like a witches’ brew for an old –fashioned, illicit ‘60s beach party.
Microbial fuel cells turn on the juice
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Posted in Microbial Biotechnology on Mar 12th, 2007
Artificial DNA with encoded information can be added to the genome of common bacteria, thus preserving the data. The technique was developed at Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus. If you think those USB flash memory “thumbdrives” are small, check this data storage out.
LiveScience.com
Posted in Microbial Biotechnology on Feb 28th, 2007
IT can take years, sometimes decades, for the commercial applications of a scientific or intellectual breakthrough to become apparent — like the notion that brainless bacteria communicate through networks to cause diseases that can also wreak social or economic havoc.
The New York Times
