From: “Toward Biorecycling: Isolation of a Soil Bacterium That Grows on a Polyurethane Oligomer and Monomer”, M.J.C. Espinosa, A.C. Blanco, T. Schmidgall, A.K. Atanasoff-Jardjalieff, E. Kappelmeyer, D. Tischler, D.H. Pieper, H.J. Heipieper and C. Eberlein (2020). Frontiers in Microbiology https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00404 Plastic is a problem. We pump oil out of the ground, turn it into something …
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From “Low mutational load and high mutation rate variation in gut commensal bacteria”, R.S Ramiro, P. Durão, C. Bank, I. Gordo (2020), PLoS Biology 18:3 e3000617 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000617 In recent years, biology has come to understand that the bacteria and microorganisms living inside animal guts are hugely influential in the functioning of the animal, affecting processes …
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From: “Synthetic cell division via membrane-transforming molecular assemblies”, S. Kretschmer, K.A. Ganzinger, H.G. Franquelim and P. Schwille (2019), BMC Biology 17:43 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0665-1 Cell membranes are the structures that make life possible. They are what keeps a patch of water having all the interesting biologically-important molecules* at high enough concentrations for all the chemical reactions which …
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