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    How do microbiomes influence the study of life?

    2024-11-14T19:00:00Z

    Researchers from the awardwinning One Health Microbiome Center reveal how holobiont biology underpins a holistic understanding of how life’s forms and functions, from human disease to agricultural output, depend upon the relationships between microbes and hosts.

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    Plastic-free vegan leather that dyes itself grown from bacteria

    2024-04-08T13:29:00Z

    Researchers at Imperial College London have genetically engineered bacteria to grow animal- and plastic-free leather that dyes itself. In recent years, scientists and companies have started using microbes to grow sustainable textiles or to make dyes for industry – but this is the first time bacteria have been engineered to ...

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    AMI launching STEM and success entrepreneurship webinar to mark IWD

    2024-02-13T11:19:00Z

    On International Women’s Day, Applied Microbiology International will host an exciting online event focusing on five women who founded their own companies, becoming successful entrepreneurs using their own research as a spin-out launchpad.