In a laboratory in Ulsan, South Korea, scientists have quietly pulled off what might become one of the most important ...

In silico analysis of five industrial microorganisms identifies optimal strains and metabolic engineering strategies for ...

Pieter Dorrestein, researcher at the University of California, states that the lack of microbes and molecules prevents the ...

Researchers at IIT Guwahati have identified a beneficial bacterial strain in Panitenga, a traditional Assamese fermented food ...

Bacitracin is a polypeptide antibiotic that is chemically unrelated to neomycin. It inhibits bacterial cell wall synthesis. It is produced by Bacillus subtilis (Gehrig & Warshaw, 2008). Bacitracin ...

This agar is used to identify organisms that are capable of producing the enzyme lipase. This enzyme is secreted and hydrolyzes triglycerides to glycerol and three long chain fatty acids. These ...