Sentences with phrase «engineered microorganisms»

Although showing great promise in the laboratory, these technologies require control and safety measures that make sure the engineered microorganisms keep their functional gene circuits intact over many cell divisions, and that they are contained to the specific environments they are designed for.

With genetically engineered microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, playing an increasing role in the green chemistry production of valuable chemical products including therapeutic drugs, advanced biofuels and biodegradable plastics from renewables, Cas9 is emerging as an important genome - editing tool for practitioners of synthetic biology.

The new, genetically engineered microorganisms incorporated the fluorinated diketides into the PHAs they produced, generating polymers containing 5 to 15 % fluorinated monomers.

After that, Weibel did not pursue the challenge of engineering microorganisms to ferry nanoparticles, but he remains fascinated by the ongoing research.

Jay Keasling (right) engineers microorganisms to produce life - saving drugs, energy - saving fuels and improved materials — work that earned him the title of Discover's Scientist of the Year in 2006.

Keasling's research focuses on engineering microorganisms to produce useful chemicals.

Not exact matches

Or is it better to produce them via fermentation processes, using yeast or other microorganisms that have been engineered to produce them a thousand times more efficiently?

A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant, animal, microorganism or other organism whose genetic makeup has been modified in a laboratory using genetic engineering or transgenic technology.

An engineer might think of designing a bridge to a particular specification; a synthetic biologist of designing a microorganism with a new commercial application, pumping out green gasoline for example; but a real designer, a fashion designer, for example, is doing something else.

There are also food engineers in our department, working on such topics as inactivating microorganisms to prevent spoilage and food poisoning.

Knowing the limited range of behaviors that microorganisms display, he adds, will prove a big help in engineering them to churn out drugs and biofuels.

Using two ounces of salt water and some muscle, University of Iowa engineering professor Craig Just can make enough bleach to kill the disease - causing microorganisms in five gallons of water.

In a one - two punch, he would deploy microorganisms to dismantle and haul out the molecular trash while delivering engineered gene and therapeutic cells to refurbish cells that have died out and gone unreplaced.

«We haven't tested it yet for Legionella bacteria, but I believe it will work on any microorganism,» says Yogi Goswami, the mechanical engineer who led the project.

Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.

A group of Mexican engineers from the Jhostoblak Corporate created technology to recover and purify, either seawater or wastewater from households, hotels, hospitals, commercial and industrial facilities, regardless of the content of pollutants and microorganisms in, incredibly, just 2.5 minutes, researchers say.

To bypass farming, University of California, Berkeley, chemical engineer Jay Keasling and colleagues decided to harness the synthetic powers of microorganisms.

These should involve basic and applied biologists, including those with expertise in microorganisms or in higher organisms; informaticians and mathematicians, who can develop methods that extract information from the mountains of sequence data; and chemists, physicists and engineers.

The same bacteria almost certainly were present in the shale before the avalanche, but heat from the slide erased the DNA signal of the existing microorganisms, says co-author Mauri McSaveney, an emeritus engineering geomorphologist at GNS Science in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Eoin Brodie seeks to reverse engineer naturally occurring microbiomes to understand the functional roles of the microorganisms within them and how their interactions with one another and the environment create stable microbial communities.

In a study being published July 13 in Nature Nanotechnology, NC State engineer Orlin Velev and colleagues show that silver - ion infused lignin nanoparticles, which are coated with a charged polymer layer that helps them adhere to the target microbes, effectively kill a broad swath of bacteria, including E. coli and other harmful microorganisms.

In this study, creatures that had been genetically engineered to produce high levels of amyloid beta were able to fight off infections from Salmonella and other microorganisms quickly and successfully.