Our current food system relies on unsustainable practices, which often fail to provide healthy
diets to a growing population. Therefore, there is an urgent demand for new sustainable …

Since the industrial revolution, the rapid growth and development of global industries have
depended largely upon the utilization of coal-derived chemicals, and more recently, the …

Enzymes are the most proficient catalysts, offering much more competitive processes
compared to chemical catalysts. The number of industrial applications for enzymes has …

Petroleum hydrocarbons represent the most frequent environmental contaminant. The
introduction of petroleum hydrocarbons into a pristine environment immediately changes the …

Microorganisms grow in concert, both in natural communities and in artificial or synthetic co-
cultures. Positive interactions between associated microbes are paramount to achieve …

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 …

With the development of metabolic engineering, employment of a selected microbial host for
accommodation of a designed biosynthetic pathway to produce a target compound has …

Microorganisms rarely live isolated in their natural environments but rather function in
consolidated and socializing communities. Despite the growing availability of high …

The development of reliable, mixed-culture biotechnological processes hinges on
understanding how microbial ecosystems respond to disturbances. Here we reveal …

Functional differentiation and metabolite exchange enable microbial consortia to perform
complex metabolic tasks and efficiently cycle the nutrients. Inspired by the cooperative …