Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) promise an accelerated application of the scientific method.
Through the automation of experimental workflows, along with autonomous experimental …

Taxol®, which is also known as paclitaxel, is a chemotherapeutic agent widely used to treat
different cancers. Since the discovery of its antitumoral activity, Taxol® has been used to …

The issues of global warming, coupled with fossil fuel depletion, have undoubtedly led to
renewed interest in other sources of commercial fuels. The search for renewable fuels has …

Metabolic engineering aims to develop efficient cell factories by rewiring cellular
metabolism. As one of the most commonly used cell factories, Saccharomyces cerevisiae …

Designing an optimal microbial cell factory often requires overexpression, knock-down, and
knock-out of multiple gene targets. Unfortunately, such rewiring of cellular metabolism is …

A systematic analysis of all naturally-occurring glycosylated bacterial secondary metabolites
reported in the scientific literature up through early 2013 is presented. This comprehensive …

Natural pigments sourced from ores, insects, plants and animals were the colorants used
since prehistoric period. Synthetic dyes which took the place of natural pigments in the …

Many microbial ecologists have described the composition of microbial communities in a
plenitude of environments, which has greatly improved our basic understanding of …

Large-scale data acquisition and analysis are often required in the successful
implementation of the design, build, test, and learn (DBTL) cycle in biosystems design …

An increasing number of industrial bioprocesses capitalize on living cells by using them as
cell factories that convert sugars into chemicals. These processes range from the production …