Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth and its biodegradation is pivotal to global carbon cycling. Microbial cellulose degradation relies on the coordinated action of specialised enzymes ...

A study has elucidated the mechanism by which bacterial cellulose mediates plant tissue regeneration. The work has been published today in the journal Science Advances and includes collaborations with ...

In a world overrun with plastic garbage, causing untold environmental woes, University of Houston assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Maksud Rahman, has developed a way to ...

Using synthetic biology, we engineered a cellulose-producing bacterium that can produce eumelanin and respond to light, so that it is possible to grow a microbial leather material that is colored ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Millions of medical procedures every year rely on stents—small mesh-like tubes—to keep body channels open when diseases threaten to close them off. These stents help restore blood ...

Paradise Textiles, the material science arm of global end-to-end textile company Alpine Group, has teamed up with biotechnology company Nanollose to develop and commercialize Nullarbor tree-free ...

A university in Kagawa is turning one of the western Japan prefecture's most famous foods into an unlikely new material, ...