New cultivation framework: KAUST scientists propose a systematic approach using genomic data, AI, and metabolic modeling to grow hard-to-culture microbes. Why it matters: Many uncultivated microbes ...

Advances in DNA sequencing have expanded our view of the microbial world, but the inability to cultivate most microbes has been a major constraint. Now, a systematic, predictive framework that ...

Microbial secretion systems are at the core of bacterial physiology, facilitating processes such as protein export, ...

For more than a century, the industrial production of chemicals, fuels, foods, and medicines has relied on wild-type ...

Shibazuke is a traditional Japanese eggplant pickle produced by the process of fermentation using lactic acid bacteria (LAB). LAB which are commonly present in vegetables cause the spontaneous ...

Beneath our feet lies a hidden pharmaceutical frontier: soil microbes are yielding new antibiotic leads just as scientists race to outpace the global rise of antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial ...