AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

The project team is seeking highly motivated candidates with a strong background in microbial biotechnology, with a strong experience on working with obligate and facultative anaerobes. A background ...

Microsporidia are obligate intracellular, spore-forming parasitic fungi which are grouped with the Cryptomycota. They are both opportunistic pathogens in humans and emerging veterinary pathogens. In ...

Trace metals are essential constituents of cofactors and enzymes and that their addition to anaerobic digesters increases methane production. Many trace elements are contained in herbal-extraction ...

Together, our synthetic study approach reveals ecological principles that can help explain the widespread occurrence of obligate metabolic cross-feeding interactions in nature. Here we engineered ...