Rafts4Biotech blog
August Top10 BactToTheFuture stories
1. Microbial mummy awakens! 🦠💀 Researchers recovered organism samples from the seafloor, deposited up to 100 million years ago - and found they are alive! 🌊 If there is something that [...]
Bacillus subtilis: synbio applications from the cell to the spore
When it comes to using microorganisms in the biotech industry, we can say there are two main kinds of scientists: those who work with Escherichia coli in their labs, and those who prefer Bacillus subtilis. [...]
July Top10 BactToTheFuture stories
1. The ultimate #DNA “USB”? This new approach can boost DNA Data Storage! 🧬 In the same way that computers save information in binary code, cells store theirs in a 4 [...]
Microbial food: from the lab to your table
In the last decades, synthetic biology has provided scientists with a wide range of experimental tools to engineer organisms for many different purposes. That’s what we have been doing in fields like drug production, energy [...]
June Top10 BactToTheFuture stories
1. Humans have millions of #microbes living in our guts, in our skin… and in our noses! 👃🦠 These “nosy” #bacteria may be protecting us from pathogens! 👇 Every day of [...]
Born in iGEM: synthetic biology projects that turned into start-ups
Microorganisms that can munch on plastic waste. Bacteria that detect land mines. Microbes that can produce spider silk. Only twenty years ago, any of these applications would have been science fiction. But now, these and [...]
