Escherichia coli has long served as a model organism and workhorse in the field of metabolic engineering, owing to its rapid growth, well‐characterised genetics and amenability to genetic manipulation ...

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have completed a spaceflight biology investigation aboard the ...

The field of metabolic engineering has emerged as a transformative avenue for the sustainable biosynthesis of 2-phenylethanol, a high‐value aromatic compound renowned for its rose-like fragrance and ...

I enjoyed reading Charlotte Hsu's article "Engineers turn E. coli into tiny factories for producing new forms of popular antibiotic," which describes the accomplishment of UB scientists in combatting ...

By reconstructing a non-natural metabolic route in Escherichia coli, the researchers demonstrated that simple sugars can be ...

Lab-scale production of medicarpin in yeast heralds another manufacturing option for this natural anti-tumor agent.

Much like humans, microbial organisms can be fickle in their productivity. One moment they're cranking out useful chemicals ...

(Nanowerk News) Metabolic engineering has enabled the construction of efficient microbial cell factories, but cellular aging and the accumulation of toxic metabolites during prolonged fed-batch ...

Biotechnology tools — or the techniques, technology and instruments used to study, modify or create biological systems — have the potential to solve issues in human health, sustainability and the ...