Microbial protein: future sustainable food supply route with low environmental footprint

S Matassa, N Boon, I Pikaar… - Microbial …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial biotechnology has a long history of producing feeds and foods. The key feature of
today's market economy is that protein production by conventional agriculture based food …

Estimating the success of enzyme bioprospecting through metagenomics: current status and future trends

M Ferrer, M Martínez‐Martínez, R Bargiela… - Microbial …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent reports have suggested that the establishment of industrially relevant enzyme
collections from environmental genomes has become a routine procedure. Across the …

Weaponising microbes for peace

S Anand, JE Hallsworth, J Timmis… - Microbial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There is much human disadvantage and unmet need in the world, including deficits in basic
resources and services considered to be human rights, such as drinking water, sanitation …

[HTML][HTML] The COVID‐19 pandemic: some lessons learned about crisis preparedness and management, and the need for international benchmarking to reduce deficits

K Timmis, H Brüssow - Environmental microbiology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
If, despite the explicit warning of the World Health Organization in 2011 that 'The world is ill-
prepared to respond to a severe influenza pandemic or to any similarly global, sustained …

Targeting sustainable bioeconomy: A new development strategy for Southern European countries. The Manifesto of the European Mezzogiorno

E Koukios, M Monteleone, MJT Carrondo… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
This policy-oriented opinion paper, which has taken the form of a Manifesto, is co-authored
by scientists and engineers from Southern European Union countries that are presently …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of microbial biotechnology to economic growth and employment creation

K Timmis, V De Lorenzo, W Verstraete… - Microbial …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Our communication discusses the profound impact of bio‐based economies–in particular
microbial biotechnologies–on SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable …

Bacterial proteins and peptides in cancer therapy: today and tomorrow

AM Chakrabarty, N Bernardes, AM Fialho - Bioengineered, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer is one of the most deadly diseases worldwide. In the last three decades many efforts
have been made focused on understanding how cancer grows and responds to drugs. The …

High throughput screening of esterases, lipases and phospholipases in mutant and metagenomic libraries: a review

C Peña-García, M Martínez-Martínez… - … Chemistry & High …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Nowadays, enzymes can be efficiently identified and screened from metagenomic resources
or mutant libraries. A set of a few hundred new enzymes can be found using a simple …

Identification and characterization of carboxyl esterases of gill chamber-associated microbiota in the deep-sea shrimp Rimicaris exoculata by using functional …

M Alcaide, A Tchigvintsev… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The shrimp Rimicaris exoculata dominates the fauna in deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites
along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (depth, 2,320 m). Here, we identified and biochemically …

[HTML][HTML] Microbes Saving Lives and Reducing Suffering

K Timmis, ZC Karahan, JL Ramos… - Microbial …, 2025 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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