Microbial consortia are ubiquitous in nature and are implicated in processes of great
importance to humans, from environmental remediation and wastewater treatment to …

Co-culture techniques find myriad applications in biology for studying natural or synthetic
interactions between cell populations. Such techniques are of great importance in synthetic …

To utilize biofilms for chemical transformations in biorefineries they need to be controlled
and replaced. Previously, we engineered the global regulator Hha and cyclic diguanylate …

Background The field of synthetic biology has greatly evolved and numerous functions can
now be implemented by artificially engineered cells carrying the appropriate genetic …

Bioreactors that employ a synthetic microbial community hold potential to overcome
limitations of those based on a single species, which embrace a higher level of complexity …

Vibrio fischeri is a typical quorum-sensing bacterium for which lux box, luxR, and luxI have
been identified as the key elements involved in quorum sensing. To decode the quorum …

Quorum sensing is a common mechanism used by bacteria to coordinate population
behavior, and is involved in a variety of biological processes, such as bioluminescence …

Quorum sensing (QS) is a collective behavior whereby actions of individuals depend on the
density of the surrounding population. Bacteria use QS to trigger secretion of digestive …

Microbial communities are under constant influence of physical and chemical components in
ecosystems. Shifts in conditions such as pH, temperature or carbon source concentration …

This paper presents a novel bio-inspired artificial system that is based on biological
prokaryotic organisms and their artificial model, and proposes a new type of fault tolerant …