From life-saving medicine to gourmet cheese – our microbe of the year 2026 is Penicillium 🌟

This brush mold 🧫gave us penicillin & launched the antibiotic era 💊, and is a common workhorse in biotech labs🧪.
And it makes your cheese delicious 🧀🐭

#VAAM #MikrobeDesJahres #MicrobeOfTheYear #Penicillium

🌍 Today is the #InternationalMicroorganismsDay!
On this occasion, we are naming the Microverse #MicrobeoftheYear 2025: Candida albicans.

Carried by up to 95% of people, it usually lives harmlessly in our bodies – but can also cause infections.
www.microverse-cluster.de/en/news/micr...

Anwendungen der Kabelbakterien in der Umwelt- und Biotechnologie - BIOspektrum Cable bacteria are living electric wires, exerting remarkable effects on their surroundings. Despite still refusing pure culture isolation, their biological conductivity and their impact on aquatic se...

Hier ist nun unser Artikel zu den Anwendungspotentialen der faszinierenden Kabelbakterien der #MdJ Electronema spp. im #BioSpektrum.
#Microbeoftheyear #VAAM_Microbes #CEMAarhus