All Sustainable Microbiology articles – Page 9
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OpinionMadonna, Mass Consumption and Microbes
Back in 1984, Madonna already knew we were ‘living in a material world’, and since then, things have only got worse.
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NewsAI plus microbes could unlock higher biogas production for UK
Researchers are using artificial intelligence to develop better microorganism-led processes that efficiently devour products such as food waste, wastewater and animal manure to help boost the UK’s burgeoning green industry.
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NewsAntimicrobial foam targets bugs or oil spills
A versatile new foam material could significantly reduce health care-related infections caused by implanted medical devices - or drastically improve cleanup efforts following environmental disasters like oil spills.
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FeaturesMicrobiomics at the centre of sustainable microbiology
How can research in microbiology laboratories support feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050 in a way that improves economic development, while reducing pressure on the environment?
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News12 exotic bacteria found to passively collect rare earth elements from wastewater
Scientists have shown that the biomass of some exotic photosynthetic cyanobacteria can efficiently absorb rare earth elements (REEs) from wastewater, to be collected for reuse.
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News3D printing with bacteria-loaded ink produces bone-like composites
Researchers have published a method for 3D-printing an ink that contains calcium carbonate-producing bacteria. The 3D-printed mineralized bio-composite is unprecedently strong, light, and environmentally friendlly.
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NewsFashion company joins fibre-to-fibre consortium founded by Carbios, On, Patagonia, PUMA and Salomon
Carbios, a pioneer of biological technologies for reinventing the life cycle of plastics and textiles, has signed an agreement with fashion company PVH Corp to join its fibre-to-fibre consortium founded with On, Patagonia, PUMA, and Salomon1.
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NewsAMI’s new Climate Action Advisory Group meets for first time
The newly formed Climate Action Advisory Group has just held its inaugural meeting.
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NewsEC awards €7.65m to develop tools to harness marine microbiome data
The European Commission has awarded €7.65 million in funding to the BlueRemediomics project, which will develop novel tools and approaches to catalogue marine microbiome data and marine culture collections.
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NewsFirst global evaluation carried out of prokaryotic diversity in saline lake immortalised in Star Wars
Scientists have carried out the first global evaluation of the prokaryotic diversity of the biggest saline lake on Earth, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, which doubled as the salt planet in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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NewsBiogas produced from apple juice waste can minimize use of fossil fuels in industry
A new study shows that the use of bioenergy from apple pomace avoids greenhouse gas emissions, while the bioreactor can also convert the waste vinto organic fertilizer.
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NewsScientists discover how plastic-eating bacteria digest complex carbons
Researchers have deciphered the metabolic mechanisms that enable the bacterium Comamonas testosteroni to digest complex wasste from plants and plastics, potentially leading to novel biotechnology platforms that harness the microbe to help recycle plastic waste.
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NewsBiorefinery uses microbial fuel cell to upcycle resistant plant waste
Researchers have developed a sustainable, inexpensive two-step process that can upcycle organic carbon waste - including lignin - transforming it into antioxidant flavonoids for nutrition and medicine. .By processing waste through a microbe-driven biorefinery, the researchers turned lignin into carbon sources that could be used in high-value, plant-derived pharmaceuticals and ...
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NewsRhodococcus reveals where missing plastic in world’s oceans could have gone
The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic - as revealed in laboratory experiments by PhD student Maaike Goudriaan at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ).
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NewsIceland could feed Europe with cyanobacteria reactors powered by renewables
Iceland could play a pivotal role in European food security, providing over 40 million Europeans with a safe, sustainable, and locally-produced protein source over the next decade, while mitigating over 700 million tons of CO2 emissions, a new study suggests.
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NewsFungi convert ocean plastic into ingredients for drug industry
Research on fungi underway at the University of Kansas has helped transform tough-to-recycle plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean into key components for making pharmaceuticals.
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NewsElectricity-fed purple phototrophic bacteria convert carbon dioxide into high protein biomass
For the first time, researchers from University of Alcalá have grown a microbial consortium dominated by purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) which are fed with electricity to convert CO2 into high protein biomass.
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NewsMicrobially synthesized compound stabilizes lithium ion batteries - and it’s eco-friendly too
Researchers in Japan have found that a microbially prepared pyrazine diamine compound can significantly stabilize high-energy density lithium-ion batteries.
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NewsGold mine bacterium can clean arsenic-polluted wastewater within days
A bacterium found in a former gold mine in Poland can clean up industrial wastewater polluted with arsenic, selenium and metals within days, researchers have discovered.