Scientists' call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals

TW Crowther, R Rappuoli, C Corinaldesi, R Danovaro… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, and protists, are essential to life
on Earth and the functioning of the biosphere. Here, we discuss the key roles of …

This is the Age of Microbial Technology: Crucial roles of learned societies and academies

K Timmis, JE Hallsworth - Microbial Biotechnology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial technologies constitute a huge and unique potential for confronting major
humanitarian and biosphere challenges, especially in the realms of sustainability and …

Concepts and criteria defining emerging microbiome applications

T Kostic, M Schloter, P Arruda, G Berg… - Microbial …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, microbiomes and their potential applications for human, animal or plant
health, food production and environmental management came into the spotlight of major …

Capturing methane with recombinant soluble methane monooxygenase and recombinant methyl‐coenzyme M reductase

V Sanchez‐Torres, TK Wood - Microbial Biotechnology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Methane capture via oxidation is considered one of the 'Holy Grails' of catalysis (Tucci and
Rosenzweig, 2024). Methane is also a primary greenhouse gas that has to be reduced by …

Aspergillus ullungdoensis sp. nov., Penicillium jeongsukae sp. nov., and other fungi from Korea

HB Lee, TTT Nguyen, SJ Noh, DH Kim, KH Kang… - Fungal Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Eurotiales fungi are thought to be distributed worldwide but there is a paucity of information
about their occurrence on diverse substrates or hosts and at specific localities. Some of the …

Guidelines to support the design, and selection and appraisal of multimedia teaching aids for microbiology education

R Van Beek, DJC Spijkerman… - Microbial …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Microbiology education has a serious handicap–the lack of visibility of the players of the
subject and their interactions–which engenders a disproportionate reliance upon multimedia …

Penitentiaries: Bringing microbiological literacy to the fringes of society

V de Lorenzo - Microbial Biotechnology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This report highlights a science outreach effort for prisons launched by the Spanish National
Research Council (CSIC) in collaboration with the NGO Solidarios para el Desarrollo. The …