When you spend months engineering the perfect organism, but it turns out to have some very human habits... like needing coffee breaks! ☕️ Sometimes, even the most advanced science can't escape the little quirks of life. 😂 #SyntheticBiology #LabLife #ScienceHumor #Biotech
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Researchers at VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology have overcome the low transformation frequency bottleneck in maize gene-editing. By using ternary vectors and morphogenic regulators, they significantly boosted transformation efficiency, enhancing the regeneration of transformed cells into plants. Their findings, published in The Plant Journal, show up to a 20-fold improvement. This breakthrough could lead to the creation of new hybrids, benefiting agricultural research and applications. #Researchers #VIBUGENT #CenterForPlantSystemsBiology #Maize #GeneEditing #TernaryVectors #MorphogenicRegulators #TransformationEfficiency
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Arriving in the East Bay for a week of meetings with public, private, and academic labs expanding the frontier of synthetic biology. Can’t wait to meet up with Tom Schmidt and Jared DeCoste, collaborate with colleagues, reconnect with familiar faces, and forge new connections at the epicenter of biomanufacturing as we launch our BioMADE project. (Please excuse the tectonic metaphor!) The Bay Area embodies the spirit of innovation, and it’s clear: this is the century of biology! #biomanufacturing #biobasedproducts #fermentation #biomade #syntheticbiology #consumerbiotech #sustainability #biotech #synbio #bioeconomy #GreenTechnology #SustainableDevelopment #Innovation #Biotechnology
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An incredible trait from Pseudomonas syringae. Also an excellent description of this phenomena. For crops: We need to keep low levels of P. syringae during cold season to prevent disease and decrease invasion probability of other pathogens. Microorganisms have super powers!! #CropScience #CropDisease #PseudomonasSyringae #FunctionalEcology
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🌨️ Harnessing the Power of Nature: How Pseudomonas syringae Turns Water to Ice 🌬️ Did you know that a bacterium could trigger freezing temperatures in water, even before it naturally reaches 0°C? Meet Pseudomonas syringae, a fascinating microbe with a unique superpower — ice nucleation. Thanks to specialized proteins on its surface, P. syringae can promote the formation of ice crystals, acting as a nucleus that turns water into ice at relatively high sub-zero temperatures. This trait has profound implications in nature and industry. In agriculture, it contributes to frost damage on plants, a mechanism used by the bacterium to invade its host. But beyond the field, this ability has been explored in artificial snow production, environmental science, and even climate modeling. What's remarkable is how such microorganisms, often unseen, play critical roles in the world around us. From plant pathology to cutting-edge biotechnology, P. syringae is a small player with a massive impact! 🌿❄️ Who would’ve thought a microbe could have a hand in making snowflakes? #Microbiology #Innovation #ClimateScience #Biotechnology #NatureTech
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Soil and water testing shows these young macadamias are under sodium stress and just starting to show early symptoms of the elevated levels. Armed with the data Paul has been developing an integrated Bioplan to address the problem before there are economic losses later in crop life. This will eventually involve a combination of targeted complementary products, biostimulants, and biology. Some of the results we will see within the first couple of applications. Stay tuned for the data. #measuremeasuremeasure #bioplan #biohubsequest #dataisking
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👇 Editor's choice paper "Effect of ammonium/nitrate ratio on microalgae continuous cultures: Species-specificity of nutrient uptake and modelling perspectives" ✍ Authors: Marta Carletti (first author), Elena Barbera, Eleonora Sforza (corresponding author), et al., University of Padova, Italy. #diiunipd #UNIPD 💡 Microalgae and cyanobacteria can efficiently consume pollutants from wastewater, but the complexity of wastewater composition is affecting its quantitative description. Ammonium generally inhibits the assimilation of other nitrogen compounds, but here the authors found that the microalga Auxenochlorella protothecoides is able to assimilate the two compounds simultaneously when cultivated in continuous. This feature is explained by looking at the information we have on nutrient transport in Chlorella, based on bioinformatics. Modeling this topic is complex, but based on a Droop Model, the affinity of transporters can be described by a variable maximum uptake rate, which is a function of the external composition. Ludovic (Ludo) DUMEE Luaine Bandounas, Ph.D Xiaochang Wang To read the paper, please visit: https://lnkd.in/g3xY-ebW
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Characterization of pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanism in hornworts (bioRxiv) (Summary by Mary Williams) https://buff.ly/3ylTrlu #PlantaePSRW
Characterization of pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanism in hornworts | Plantae
https://plantae.org
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Very cool work done revealing insight into a symbiotic relationship of major agricultural and environmental importance, by combining single-cell and spatial transcriptomics for the analysis of complex organismal interactions
Spatial co-transcriptomics reveals discrete stages of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis - Nature Plants
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Synthetic biology uses microorganisms as substrates, inserts edited DNA, and designs organisms like circuits to achieve environmentally friendly raw materials.#syntheticbiology #cysteine #cystine
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Synbio & Beyond: A Great Course! ⚖️ Just finished "Engineering Life: Synbio, Bioethics & Public Policy" by Johns Hopkins on Coursera. A fantastic exploration of the exciting (and sometimes challenging) world of synthetic biology! #synbio #bioethics #coursera
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The BioE3 policy is the first step towards industrialization of biology #biotech