Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are promising biodegradable and bio-based alternatives to conventional plastics; however, their industrial implementation remains challenged by high production costs, refined carbon sources, stringent cultivation requirem...
Mixed or pure cultures can be used for biomethanation of hydrogen. Sodium 2-bromoethanesulfonate (BES) is an inhibitor of methanogenesis used to investigate competing reactions like homoacetogenesis in mixed cultures. To understand the effect of BES...
Trichosanthis Fructus (TrF) is an edible medicinal fruit with a sweet taste and pleasant flavor. In this study, different concentrations of TrF were added into the media to brew Monascus rice wine using a pure culture method, and the physicochemical...
The ability of fungi isolated from nails of patients suffering from onychomycosis to induce de novo production of bioactive compounds in co-culture was examined. Comparison between the metabolite profiles produced by Sarocladium strictum, by Fusarium...
Dark fermentative hydrogen production is constrained by challenges including low hydrogen yield and operational instability. Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have emerged as promising additives for enhancing biohydrogen production due to their unique ph...
Onychomycoses are nail infections that require prolonged therapy and have high recurrence rates. Dermatophytes are the main etiological agents of these infections, followed by yeasts and non-dermatophyte filamentous fungi. The limited antifungal arse...
This study investigates the effect of pure yeast culture fermentation versus spontaneous fermentation on the volatile compound profile of industrially produced plum brandy. Using traditional distillation methods, the evolution of key volatile compoun...
The spread of pathogenic and food spoilage microorganisms through the food chain still faces major mitigation challenges, despite modern advances. Although multiple cleaning and disinfection procedures are available for microbial load reduction in fo...
This paper challenges the conventional assumption that the widespread popularity of Pure Land Buddhism in Unified Silla naturally resulted in mass production of Amitābha statues. Drawing on historical records, inscriptions, and reliable iconogra...
Recent consumer demand for non-dairy alternatives has forced many manufacturers to turn their attention to cereal-based non-alcoholic fermented products. In contrast to fermented dairy products, there is no defined and standardized starter culture fo...
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The tri-functional purpose of Microbial Desalination Cell (MDC) has shown a great promise in our current scarcity of water, an increase in water pollution and the high cost of electricity production. As a biological system, the baseline force that dr...
To explore microbial resources for ester production in sub-high-temperature Daqu, this study first established that the esterifying enzyme activity in Daqu predominantly originated from fungi, with Rhizopus being the dominant fungal genus. Six Rhizop...
Over the last decade, fungal conservation has become an increasingly important topic, especially for species tied to forest ecosystems. Among these, wood decay fungi are a group of interesting species from ecological and applicative points of view. C...
Sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, and fine chemicals production is a critical matter that research teams around the globe are focusing on nowadays. Polyhydroxyalkanoates represent one of the biomaterials of the future due to their physicochemical p...
While temperature, pH, DO, and ammonia nitrogen concentration are known to affect nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), the specific responses of individual AOB species to these environmental variables have yet to be fu...
Sanitizing effectiveness of slightly acidic electrolyzed water (SAEW) and fumaric acid (FA) at different dipping temperatures (25–60 °C), times (1–5 min), and concentrations (5–30 ppm for SAEW and 0.125%–0.5% for FA) on pure cultures of two Gram posi...
A sustainable solution for crack maintenance in geopolymers is necessary if they are to be the future of modern green construction. This study aims to develop self-healing biogeopolymers that could potentially rival bioconcrete. First, a suitable hea...
Hydrogen is an important source of energy and is considered as the future energy carrier post-petroleum era. Nowadays hydrogen production through various methods is being explored and developed to minimize the production costs. Biological hydrogen pr...
Background: Recent advances in antibody discovery technologies, especially progress in de novo synthesis through machine learning, have imposed a significant production challenge for the generation of a large diversity of antibodies against nearly an...
The diversity of the microbial community structure plays a crucial role in the flavor and nutritional value of Shanxi aged vinegar in fermentation. Illumina Miseq high-throughput sequencing identified thirteen bacterial genera, with Lactobacillales (...
Automated AI-assisted colony counting may improve standardization in digital microbiology, but performance can be affected by colony density, culture medium, colony morphology, adhesion, and plate artifacts. We evaluated the Starry-300 AI colony coun...
The use of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) as slow-release electron donors for environmental remediation represents a novel and appealing application that is attracting considerable attention in the scientific community. In this context, here, the fermen...
The use of wild yeasts, isolated from different environments, is becoming the most interesting option for the production of new beers. The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential of seven non-conventional yeast strains from five differen...
The present study aims at developing an efficient bacterial consortium to biodegrade butyric acid, one of the odor-causing compounds that contribute significantly to pit latrine malodors. Six bacterial strains isolated from pit latrine fecal sludge w...
Campylobacter spp. are the main cause of foodborne gastroenteritis worldwide, and the biofilm growth mode seems to play a key role in their prevalence. In this work, the effect of lactic acid (LA) on planktonic growth and biofilm production by eight...
The extensive use of antiviral substances (SASs) during and after the COVID-19 pandemic has increased their release into wastewater systems, raising concerns regarding their persistence and potential ecotoxicological effects. The primary objective of...
It is urgent to expand the market of biodegradable alternatives to oil-derived plastics owing to (i) increasingly limited oil availability/accessibility, and (ii) the dramatic impact of traditional plastics on aquatic life, the food chain, all Earth...
Streptococcus anginosus (SAG) is a known human pathogen and member of the Streptococcus milleri group. SAG is a known bacterial cause of soft-tissue abscesses and bacteremia and is an increasingly prevalent pathogen in infections in patients with cys...
This editorial paper provides a synopsis of the contributions to the Bioengineering special issue “Advances in Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production”. It illustrates the embedding of the issue’s individual research articles in the current global rese...
Nonrenewable energy sources dominate global energy production, but their depletion and environmental impact pose serious challenges. The need for alternative and eco-friendly energy sources is increasingly evident. In this regard, utilizing knowledge...
Sociological research increasingly examines the diversity of cultural and religious resources that various community groups contribute to urban spaces and the public sphere. A key focus within this field is the reinterpretation of shared religious an...
The rising global consumption and industrialization has resulted in increased food processing demand. Food industry generates a tremendous amount of waste which causes serious environmental issues. These problems have forced us to create strategies t...
This study investigated the fermentation performances and aroma compositions of synthetic grape juice that was fermented by four indigenous non-Saccharomyces yeast isolates that were obtained from the Shangri-La wine region (China): Meyerozyma guilli...
Japanese Pure Land Buddhism has often been approached through the lens of Kamakura (1192–1333) doctrinal developments, emphasizing the emergence of an exclusive nenbutsu practice. In this article we reconsider pre-Kamakura Pure Land belief by e...
Traditional Chinese fermented foods are diverse and loved by people for their rich nutrition and unique flavors. In the fermentation processes of these foods, the microorganisms in the fermentation systems play a crucial role in determining the flavo...
This article addresses the question of how early modern Sufis dealt with yoga. Some scholars have argued that a movement of Sufi reform occurred in South Asia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, representing a shift towards legal Islam, w...
Recently a species in the genus Talaromyces, a uniseriate species of Aspergillus section Nigri and an isolate each of two widespread species, Penicillium rubens and P. commune, were reported to produce ochratoxin A. This claim was based on insufficie...
The combinatorial approach of anthropogenic activities and CO2 sequestration is becoming a global research trend to alleviate the average global temperature. Although microalgae have been widely used to capture CO2 from industrial flue gas, the appli...
Instance segmentation of small, dense, low-contrast microcolonies against confounding food matrices limits early microscopy-based screening for Salmonella and E. coli. We present BactSegNet, combining EfficientNetV2, BiFPN, selective-kernel attention...
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation of a microencapsulated blend of organic acids and pure botanicals (mOAPBs) on the solid- and liquid-associated microenvironment (SAM and LAM, respectively) of the rumin...
With the reemergence of poultry diseases such as necrotic enteritis following the restriction of in-feed antibiotics, the search for antibiotic alternatives has become critically important. Postbiotics are non-viable bacterial products or metabolic b...
The production of the Ivorian sorghum beer known as tchapalo remains more or less an empirical process. The use of starter cultures was therefore suggested as the appropriate approach to alleviate the problems of variations in organoleptic quality an...
True morels (Morchella spp.) are highly valuable and medicinal mushrooms. Saprophytic morels have been cultivated, especially in China and some Western countries, over the last few decades. Türkiye has a rich potential in terms of wild morel div...
The cultivar of Narince is a native white grape variety of Vitis vinifera, grown in Tokat city, the Mid-Black Sea Region of Anatolia. In this study, the effects of pure and mixed autochthonous Torulaspora delbrueckii-214 and Saccharomyces cerevisiae-...
Consumers require high-quality beers with specific enhanced flavor profiles and non-conventional yeasts could represent a large source of bioflavoring diversity to obtain new beer styles. In this work, we investigated the use of three different non-c...
Paenibacillus dendritiformis UJA2219 isolated from carrot produces broad-spectrum antibacterial activity. The aim of the present study was to determine the impact of partially-purified cell-culture extracts of strain UJA2219 on the microbial load and...
Microbial interactions are essential for maintaining the stability and functionality of microbiota in fermented foods. In this study, representative strains of predominant lactic acid bacteria and acetic acid bacteria in Sichuan bran vinegar were sel...
Astrocyte-to-neuron reprogramming is a promising therapeutic approach for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The use of small molecules as an alternative to the virus-mediated ectopic expression of lineage-specific transcription factors negates...
This paper addresses writer Itsuki Hiroyuki’s 1966 debut novel Farewell to Moscow Misfits through the lens of middlebrow novels, jazz novels, and repatriates. This novel draws from Itsuki’s personal experience being repatriated from colon...
Previous winery-based studies showed the strains Lalvin® RC212 (RC212) and Lalvin® ICV-D254 (D254), when present together during fermentation, contributed to >80% relative abundance of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae population in inoculated and spon...
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