Using the Caulobacter crescentus bacterium, researchers have engineered microbes that grow in slimy colonies and self-assemble as engineered living materials (ELMs). These microbial communities are ...

Concrete is the second most widely consumed resource on the planet (after water), and it has a massive carbon footprint. It's been estimated that concrete is responsible for about eight percent of the ...

Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound ...

Microbiology meets electrical engineering Thanks to their laboratory's extensive experience in 3D printing of soft, bio-based materials, the researchers were able to produce a suitable ink based ...

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Researchers are turning microbes into microscopic construction crews by altering their DNA to make them produce building materials. The work could lead to more sustainable buildings.

Microbiology meets electrical engineering Thanks to their laboratory's extensive experience in 3D printing of soft, bio-based materials, the researchers were able to produce a suitable ink based ...

Together with collaborators in biochemistry, microbiology, materials science and structural engineering, we use synthetic biology toolkits to engineer bacteria to create useful minerals and ...

Materials for isolating and studying large numbers of cells in parallel, under identical conditions, has the potential to transform microbiology from a qualitative, observational field into a ...

It is a highly interdisciplinary research process that pulls from mechanics, engineering, microbiology, materials science, and polymer physics. “It’s all part of this growing research trend into ...

The April 2022 issue of the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education ... 100% preferred interactive simulations as pre-laboratory material over traditional textbooks and lab manuals.

Through a three-year project supported by the Gebert Rüf Stiftung’s Microbials funding program, researchers at Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) have found ...