Can be directly substituted for, or blended with, gasoline A humble soil bacterium called Ralstonia eutropha has a natural tendency, whenever it is stressed, to stop growing and put all its... Read more
“It will be a game changer.” Most methane comes from natural gas, a fossil fuel. Stanford and Penn State scientists are taking a greener approach using microbes that can convert... Read more
Scientists and non-scientists need to think about its effects A recent paper by Kathleen Eggleson, a research scientist in the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) at the Universi... Read more
Human waste might someday turn human urine or waste into useful electricity for radios or space robots Today’s robots that fly, jump or roll around must refuel or recharge as does any... Read more
Butanol is particularly suited as a transport fuel A method developed at Aalto University in Finland makes it possible to use microbes to produce butanol suitable for biofuel and othe... Read more
A Q&A with Craig Venter The geneticist and entrepreneur hopes to use synthetic biology to transform microscopic algae into cells that eat up carbon dioxide, spit out oil and provi... Read more
The new technology “is changing all aspects of microbiology — it’s just transformative.” It was Tuesday evening, June 7. A frightening outbreak of food-borne bacteria was killing dozens of p... Read more
Metallic copper surfaces kill microbes on contact, decimating their populations, according to a paper in the February 2011 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. They d... Read more
A common criticism of single-player video games is that they isolate their players, shutting them off from anything or anyone that exists in the real world. Well, that certainly can’t be sai... Read more