Microorganisms play a foundational role in maintaining Earth's ecosystems by driving biogeochemical cycles, supporting plant and animal health, and ...

Mice genetically engineered to lack the amino acid cysteine, and fed a cysteine-free diet, lost 30 percent of their body weight in a week.

3.2. Soil Remediation Approaches and Application Prospects of Mixed Microbial Agents ...

From microbial metabolism to pollutant synergy, this study builds a scientific roadmap for integrating methane biofilters ...

Key pathways for biomass production ... Intriguingly, some genes involved in carbon metabolism and stress responses exhibited methylation changes in their promoters, correlating with expression ...

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 ...

Cross-feeding, the exchange of nutrients between organisms, is ubiquitous in microbial communities ... bacteria are prone to noisy regulation of metabolism which limits their growth rate. To ...

This result implies that crude oil contamination significantly reduces N uptake by plants but increases N accumulation in soil microbial biomass. The findings show that N dynamics, transformation and ...