I've spent the last few weeks creating a syllabus for myself on the world -- people, techniques, theory, history -- of biotechnology. I've talked with some scholars, accepted some Amazon ...

“I would venture to say that bacteria and archaea use everything that you can imagine for the purpose of defence — and then, some that you cannot,” said Eugene Koonin, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

Microbial biotechnology is a dynamic field, The origins of microbiology can be traced back to the pioneering research by scientists such as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch in the 19 th century. Within a ...

Water. Waste. Energy. This trio of problems is among the greatest challenges to the environmental health of society. Water purification alone is becoming more problematic in the world due to our ...

As yet, only a small fraction of the microbial world has been isolated and studied in the laboratory, and little is known about species that cannot be cultured 1. Metagenomics has begun to shed light ...

Here's my biotech reading list. I'd love your help fleshing it out. I've spent the last few weeks creating a syllabus for myself on the world -- people, techniques, theory, history -- of biotechnology ...