Recent advances in microbial ecology and synthetic biology have the potential to mitigate
damage caused by anthropogenic activities that are deleteriously impacting Earth’s soil …

Efficient genome engineering is critical to understand and use microbial functions. Despite
recent development of tools such as CRISPR-Cas gene editing, efficient integration of …

The parameters in a complex synthetic gene network must be extensively tuned before the
network functions as designed. Here, we introduce a simple and general approach to rapidly …

Recent advances in the design and construction of synthetic multicelled systems in E. coli
and S. cerevisiae suggest that it may be possible to implement sophisticated distributed …

The fast-growing nonmodel marine bacterium Vibrio natriegens has recently garnered
attention as a host for molecular biology and biotechnology applications. In order to further its …

Microbially produced alkanes are a new class of biofuels that closely match the chemical
composition of petroleum-based fuels. Alkanes can be generated from the fatty acid …

A brief description is given of the theory and history of EIDI (electroimpulse deicing) technology.
These descriptions are followed by a summary of the experiments conducted by the …

An important element of effective power system operation is the well-planned short term
scheduling of power generating units. Power system operators use historical load data to …

Significant advances have been made in synthetic biology to program information processing
capabilities in cells. While these designs can function predictably in controlled laboratory …

Microbial communities organize into spatial patterns that are largely governed by interspecies
interactions. This phenomenon is an important metric for understanding community …