Tag Archives: microbiology

Plastic-eating bacteria: coming to a biorecycler near you?

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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Mouse Microbiome Mutations: how mutant E. coli speed up evolution

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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