The microbial food revolution

AE Graham, R Ledesma-Amaro - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Our current food system relies on unsustainable practices, which often fail to provide healthy
diets to a growing population. Therefore, there is an urgent demand for new sustainable …

Engineered living materials for sustainability

B An, Y Wang, Y Huang, X Wang, Y Liu, D Xun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

Metabolic engineering: methodologies and applications

MJ Volk, VG Tran, SI Tan, S Mishra, Z Fatma… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metabolic engineering aims to improve the production of economically valuable molecules
through the genetic manipulation of microbial metabolism. While the discipline is a little over …

Adsorption of heavy metal onto biomass-derived activated carbon

B Wang, J Lan, C Bo, B Gong, J Ou - RSC advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to the rapid development of the social economy and the massive increase in
population, human beings continue to undertake processing, and commercial manufacturing …

Materials design by synthetic biology

TC Tang, B An, Y Huang, S Vasikaran, Y Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Synthetic biology applies genetic tools to engineer living cells and organisms analogous to
the programming of machines. In materials synthetic biology, engineering principles from …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic biology 2020–2030: six commercially-available products that are changing our world

CA Voigt - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Synthetic biology will transform how we grow food, what we eat, and where we source
materials and medicines. Here I have selected six products that are now on the market …

Rescuing yeast from cell death enables overproduction of fatty acids from sole methanol

J Gao, Y Li, W Yu, YJ Zhou - Nature Metabolism, 2022 - nature.com
Methanol is an ideal feedstock for biomanufacturing that can be beneficial for global carbon
neutrality; however, the toxicity of methanol limits the efficiency of methanol metabolism …

Third-generation biorefineries as the means to produce fuels and chemicals from CO2

Z Liu, K Wang, Y Chen, T Tan, J Nielsen - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Concerns regarding petroleum depletion and global climate change caused by greenhouse
gas emissions have spurred interest in renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. Third …

Growth of E. coli on formate and methanol via the reductive glycine pathway

S Kim, SN Lindner, S Aslan, O Yishai, S Wenk… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Engineering a biotechnological microorganism for growth on one-carbon intermediates,
produced from the abiotic activation of CO2, is a key synthetic biology step towards the …

Analysis of the polyester clothing value chain to identify key intervention points for sustainability

C Palacios-Mateo, Y Van der Meer, G Seide - Environmental Sciences …, 2021 - Springer
Clothing is one of the primary human needs, and the demand is met by the global
production of thousands of tons of textile fibers, fabrics and garments every day. Polyester …