An INRS study based on natural selection is paving the way for very promising advances in biosurfactants. LAVAL, QC, April 3, ...

The findings were recently published in Nature Biotechnology. "We've long known that bacteria swap genes in ways that impact human health, biotechnology and environmental stability," said James ...

B. subtilis spores are stable across a wide temperature range, which reduces the cost of storage and transportation.

Biotechnology is a broad discipline in which ... for the controlled expression of therapeutics in engineered oncolytic bacteria, demonstrating significant anti-tumor efficacy in multiple tumor ...

Researchers have discovered a new mechanism these genes use to survive and propagate in bacteria with linear DNA, with applications in biotechnology and drug development. Transposons, or "jumping ...

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden ...

New research suggests that VREfm have the ability to produce bacteriocin, an antimicrobial that can kill or inhibit other ...

Schüler, D. Formation of magnetosomes in magnetotactic bacteria. Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology 1, 79–86 (1999). Spormann A. M. & Wolfe R. S. Chemotactic, magnetotactic and ...

Frogs have thrived for hundreds of millions of years, spreading across virtually every corner of Earth, from tropical jungles ...

The broad field of biotechnology and applied microbiology covers topics on the manipulation of living organisms to make products or solve problems to meet human needs. Students in this field study ...