Environmental biotechnology offers several promising techniques for the rehabilitation of
polluted environments. The modern industrialized world presents novel challenges to the …

Biopreservation is a sustainable approach to improve food safety and maintain or extend
food shelf life by using beneficial microorganisms or their metabolites. Over the past 20 …

Quorum sensing is usually thought of as a collective behavior in which all members of a
population partake. However, over the last decade, several reports of phenotypic …

The molecular processes that drive gene transcription are inherently noisy. This noise often
manifests in the form of transcriptional bursts, producing fluctuations in gene activity over …

In its canonical interpretation, quorum sensing (QS) allows single cells in a bacterial
population to synchronize gene expression and hence perform specific tasks collectively …

The species of yeasts that colonize floral nectar can modify the mutualistic relationships
between plants and pollinators by changing the chemical properties of nectar. Recent …

Transcription is fundamentally noisy, leading to significant heterogeneity across bacterial
populations. Noise is often attributed to burstiness, but the underlying mechanisms and their …

The expression level of a gene can fluctuate significantly between individuals within a
population of genetically identical cells. The resultant phenotypic heterogeneity could be …

It has been known for decades that individual cells within pathogenic bacterial populations
have reduced antibiotic susceptibility, which is linked to decreased metabolic rates. A similar …

Transcriptional differences enable the generation of alternative phenotypes from the same
genome. In malaria parasites, transcriptional plasticity plays a major role in the process of …