Rather than a potential triumph, the compostable plastics we use look increasingly like a tragedy. Andy Extance looks at the ...

In Solar Foods’ case this consultation had only one comment, from a critic of novel proteins querying the health impacts of consuming the polymer polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB). This is an example of ...

Another bioplastic produced exclusively from a renewable and biodegradable source is polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), sold under the brand Biocycle. Manufactured by metabolizing sugarcane with bacteria and ...

coli that are genetically engineered to take acetic acid as their food source and they can upgrade it into butanol and a polymer called polyhydroxybutyrate." Dr Sakimoto believes that these ...

Here, the authors engineer the non-lignin-degrading bacterium Ralstonia eutropha to efficiently convert lignin into polyhydroxybutyrate using a self-enhanced autoregulation system.

Industrial microbiology is a branch of applied microbiology in which microorganisms are used in industrial processes; for example, in the production of high-value products such as drugs, chemicals ...