The goal of the current article is to update new findings in membrane fouling and emerging
fouling mitigation strategies reported in recent years (post 2010) as a follow-up to our …

INTRODUCTION In 1984, the simplest cells capable of autonomous growth, the
mycoplasmas, were proposed as models for understanding the basic principles of life. In …

The field of genetic engineering was born in 1973 with the “construction of biologically
functional bacterial plasmids in vitro”. Since then, a vast number of technologies have been …

The development of advanced genetic tools is boosting microbial engineering which can
potentially tackle wide-ranging challenges currently faced by our society. Here we present …

Development of a new generation of vaccines is a key challenge for the control of infectious
diseases affecting both humans and animals. Synthetic biology methods offer new ways to …

Genome transplantation (GT) allows the installation of purified chromosomes into recipient
cells, causing the resulting organisms to adopt the genotype and the phenotype conferred …

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) and contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
(CCPP) are major infectious diseases of ruminants caused by mycoplasmas in Africa and …

Mycoplasma species share a set of features, such as lack of a cell wall, streamlined
genomes, simplified metabolism, and the use of a deviant genetic code, that make them …

Mycoplasmas are successful pathogens that cause debilitating diseases in humans and
various animal hosts. Despite the exceptionally streamlined genomes, mycoplasmas have …

One remarkable achievement in synthetic biology was the reconstruction of mycoplasma
genomes and their cloning in yeast where they can be modified using available genetic …