Previous biofoundry efforts have produced a wide variety of products such as chemicals, fuels, and engineered cells and proteins, but those studies were not performed in a fully automated manner
A new paper reveals that the microbiomes of closely-related bats can be totally different from each other, which suggests that having a community of helpful gut bacteria may not be so important for this group of mammals
Phloem-feeding insects and pathogens cause tremendous economic losses worldwide and represent some of the most difficult pests to understand due to their specialized feeding strategies