Bacterial culture through selective and non-selective conditions: the evolution of culture media in clinical microbiology

M Bonnet, JC Lagier, D Raoult, S Khelaifia - New microbes and new …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbiology has been largely developed thanks to the discovery and optimization of culture
media. The first liquid artificial culture medium was created by Louis Pasteur in 1860 …

Thickening and gelling agents for formulation of thermal energy storage materials–A critical review

L Cong, B Zou, A Palacios, ME Navarro, G Qiao… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage (TES) provides an effective approach for alleviating energy supply
and energy demand mismatches, and utilizing renewable energy sources, excess off-peak …

Growing living and multifunctional mycelium composites for large-scale formwork applications using robotic abrasive wire-cutting

E Elsacker, A Søndergaard, A Van Wylick… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents four key developments that are leading to the scalability of the
fabrication processes of mycelium material. We develop a biological and digital fabrication …

Status of the archaeal and bacterial census: an update

PD Schloss, RA Girard, T Martin, J Edwards, JC Thrash - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A census is typically carried out for people across a range of geographical
levels; however, microbial ecologists have implemented a molecular census of bacteria and …

Shedding light on the composition of extreme microbial dark matter: alternative approaches for culturing extremophiles

J Schultz, F Modolon, RS Peixoto… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
More than 20,000 species of prokaryotes (less than 1% of the estimated number of Earth's
microbial species) have been described thus far. However, the vast majority of microbes that …

Optimization and standardization of the culturomics technique for human microbiome exploration

A Diakite, G Dubourg, N Dione, P Afouda, S Bellali… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Culturomics is a high-throughput culture approach that has dramatically contributed to the
recent renewal of culture. While metagenomics enabled substantial advances in exploring …

Reaching unreachables: Obstacles and successes of microbial cultivation and their reasons

G Kapinusova, MA Lopez Marin, O Uhlik - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In terms of the number and diversity of living units, the prokaryotic empire is the most
represented form of life on Earth, and yet it is still to a significant degree shrouded in …

Culturing the uncultured microbial majority in activated sludge: a critical review

Y Zhang, T Zhang - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Activated sludge is a widely applied wastewater treatment process that mainly uses
suspended microbial flocs to remove pollutants in wastewater. With the characteristics of …

Production and characterization of exopolysaccharide from the sponge-associated Bacillus subtilis MKU SERB2 and its in-vitro biological properties

R Sathishkumar, R Kannan, S Jinendiran… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the sponge-associated a potential endosymbiotic bacterium, Bacillus subtilis
MKU SERB2 was identified and optimized the production of exopolysaccharide (EPS) by …

Meta-topolin and liquid medium mediated enhanced micropropagation via ex vitro rooting in Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews

M Manokari, S Priyadharshini, P Jogam, A Dey… - Plant Cell, Tissue and …, 2021 - Springer
An advanced micropropagation protocol has been developed for the global spice crop
Vanilla planifolia using meta-topolin [mT, 6-(3-hydroxybenzylamino) purine] for the first time …