Some bacteria naturally turn excess carbon into polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a type of ... To achieve this, the team focused on two key enzymes: one from Clostridium, known for its ability to link ...

Bacteria were grown under Fe-limited and Fe-replete conditions ... to Fe limitation were in part reflected in different metabolic strategies of the carbon metabolism and energy acquisition. Our study ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

The fixers Marine systems fix about 50 gigatons of carbon each year, of which about half is processed by heterotrophic microbial communities. But relatively little is known about the role of ...

photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and carbon deposition, fundamentally changed Earth’s atmosphere from one mostly devoid of oxygen to one where oxygen became relatively abundant, as it is today. Until ...

Everyone is familiar with the light dome that shows from afar where cities are brightly lit at night. Artificial light that ...

Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods require additional carbon ...

These LSU scientists look to make history by releasing a new antibiotic for the first time in years that targets drug-resistant bacteria.