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Bacillus and related genera in sustainable agriculture and their effectiveness for soil health Abstract. Rising global demand for food has led to excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, increasing yields but damaging soils, biodiversity

Bacillus and related genera in sustainable agriculture and their effectiveness for soil health

review in Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry from Ivica Dimkić

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CloneCoordinate: Open-Source Software for Collaborative DNA Construction Custom DNA constructs have never been more common or important in the life sciences. Many researchers therefore devote substantial time and effort to molecular cloning, aided by abundant computer-aide...

Delighted to report that our group's passion project over the last 6+ years to make DNA cloning more accessible, efficient, and scalable using a software-assisted workflow called CloneCoordinate is now out in ACS Synbio!

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Other brilliant talks for our series! 🎉A big thank you to Mohamed Almarei and Thomas Gassler for sharing their research work 💡Passion for science and knowledge exchange at its best!
See you at the next seminar.

Always great to be at the annual @biochemsoc.bsky.social Synthetic Biology UK conference - today's one is extra special as it's in London and I'm on the organising committee 🫡🫣 #SBUK26 #SBUK2026

Evaluation of Paper-based Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....

Discovery and engineering of retrons for precise genome editing - Nature Biotechnology A metagenomic screen identifies retron reverse transcriptases for precise genome-editing applications.

Discovery and engineering of retrons for precise genome editing - @texasscience.bsky.social go.nature.com/4nkr7DE

Non-conjugative plasmids limit their mobility to persist in nature Sabnis et al. explain why non-conjugative plasmids move at a low rate in nature. While increased mobility can easily evolve by incorporating phage DNA into plasmids, this is disadvantageous because it...

✨New paper from @jrpenades.bsky.social and @sanmillan.bsky.social labs. We found that non-conjugative plasmids 🧬 tend to have low mobility to promote functional diversity ⚔️💊 in bacterial communities🦠🦠.
Brilliant work by Akshay, @asantoslopez.bsky.social and others.

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It was a fantastic start to our seminar series! 🎉A big thank you to Smitha Maretvadakethope, PDRA at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, for a great talk and to the audience for all the insightful questions that sparked such an engaging discussion.💡 Passion for science exchange!

Let there be multifunctionality: Uncovering the criticality zoo of the AC-DC genetic circuit Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) govern processes such as cell fate, patterning, and adaptation. While multistability and oscillations are both common GRN dynamics in cell biology, they are typically s...

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Making yogurt with the ant holobiont uncovers bacteria, acids, and enzymes for food fermentation Entomology; Food microbiology

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Le papier "Making yogurt with the ant holobiont uncovers bacteria, acids, and enzymes for food fermentation" :

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The next seminar of the Engineering Biology Early Career Seminar Series will take place on 22 October 2025 at 12:00 pm.

Venue: Imperial College London, Royal School of Mines, Room 228

Register to Join Zoom Meeting: imperial-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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A reversible genetic NOR gate in plants using translational repression A reversible genetic NOR circuit is implemented in tobacco plants, with exposure to chemical inducers as inputs and GFP as output. A mathematical model of the circuit’s mechanism is proposed and validated. The design methodology is versatile and analogous to electronic circuit design, enabling easy adaptation to other applications

Online now: A reversible genetic NOR gate in plants using translational repression

Bacterially grown living materials with resistant and on-demand functionality Resilient bacterial cellulose–based living materials store dormant spores, awakening to deliver programmable functions.

Bacterially grown living materials with resistant and on-demand functionality

Should genetically modified wildlife be banned? Scientists weigh the risks Conservationists debate the pros and cons of using synthetic-biology techniques to alter wild species.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SHARK: a specialized host for assembling R6K plasmids R6K plasmids are commonly used for a wide range of genome engineering applications due to their ability to support transient delivery of genetic cargoes in many hosts. The maintenance of R6K plasmids ...

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Absolutely over the moon to finally have my review available online! Many thanks to Tom Ellis, Gianluca Preza, and Tom Bell for the support and helpful advice during the write-up.

Many thanks for this Jean!

Finally decided to jump ship and join BlueSky! Hello all!