All Christian Hertweck articles

  • fungi
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    Bacterium becomes a permanent resident in a fungus

    2024-10-15T13:56:00Z

    Researchers developed an innovative method for the precise implantation of bacteria into fungal cells and used evolutionary experiments to show how the symbiosis can be stabilised. 

  • Kartoffel
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    Synthetic biology reveals the secrets of life without oxygen

    2024-07-16T10:11:00Z

    Long before photosynthesis brought free oxygen into the world, the earth was already populated by numerous organisms. Oxygen was life-threatening for them and therefore they developed completely different metabolic pathways to those we know from plants, animals and humans. Source: Gulimila Shabuer / Leibniz-HKI and EMZ Jena Scanning ...