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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Leaf beetles' evolutionary success linked to gene transfer and symbiosis phys.org/news/2025-01-leaf-bee

"Almost all #LeafBeetles have incorporated foreign genetic material into their genome, which is responsible for the production of #enzymes necessary to digest plant cell wall components... half of the species of leaf #beetles live in close association with symbiotic #bacteria. These #symbionts provide the beetles with important digestive enzymes, vitamins, and amino acids."

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Technische Universität München

Ulschan Bathe and her team are accelerating plant evolution to address #FoodSecurity challenges. 🌾 By optimizing #enzymes through directed evolution, they aim to increase #CropYields efficiently and sustainably: go.tum.de/331754

#SustainableAgriculture
📷 S. Kissel

go.tum.de"120.000 years of plant evolution in just a few days"Facing a growing word population, new technology is needed to ensure food security. Land and nutrients are limited and, therefore, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are investigating how crop yields can be increased through continuous directed evolution. Project leader Dr. Ulschan Bathe explains the research goals, the expected effects on food security, and the role of the TUM campus in Weihenstephan.
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millerebonds

youtube.com/watch?v=kXpzp4RDGJ

J'en parlais avec un ami pour expliquer la nature du #vivant... drôle de mélange de #chimie de #mecanique de #nanotechnologie naturelle, d'essai erreur, de code, etc...

Les nanotechnologies du vivant ridiculisent celles créées par l'humain.

Ici on voit une turbine avec rotor extérieur stator intérieur une tige antirotation et les #enzymes transformant énergie mécanique en énergie chimique...

YouTubeATP synthase in actionBy Harvard Online
#biochimie#biologie#code
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Spanish mother and daughter train #bacteria to restore church frescoes reuters.com/science/spanish-mo #microbes

"As Spanish #microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria, her field, could be used in #ArtRestoration, her mother's own area of expertise... The microbiologist trains bacteria by feeding them samples of glue. The bacteria then naturally produce #enzymes to degrade the glue."

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michael

12-JUL-2024
A better way to make #RNA drugs
New enzymatic synthesis method developed at Wyss Institute expands RNA therapeutic capabilities while eliminating toxic byproducts of standard chemical synthesis

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #nanoworld #enzymes

EurekAlert!A better way to make RNA drugs RNA drugs are the next frontier of medicine, but manufacturing them requires an expensive and labor-intensive process that limits production and produces metric tons of toxic chemical waste. In a new paper published in Nature Biochemical Engineering, a team of researchers from the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School report a new, enzyme-based RNA synthesis method that can produce strands of RNA with both natural and modified nucleotides without the environmental hazards. This approach enables the rapid scale-up needed to meet the growing demand for RNA therapeutics, and is being commercialized by Wyss startup EnPlusOne.
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Researchers solve 2,000-year-old mystery of the destructive shipworm phys.org/news/2024-06-year-mys

First report of microbial #symbionts in the digestive system of #shipworms; wood boring mollusks sciencedirect.com/science/arti

"a population of symbiotic #microbes, living in an overlooked sub-organ of the gut called the #typhlosole, have the ability to secrete the #enzymes needed to digest #lignin—the toughest part of wood."

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katch wreck

"We find that #purine synthesis constitutes a bottleneck for metabolic expansion, which can be alleviated by non-autocatalytic phosphoryl coupling agents. Early phases of the expansion are enriched with #enzymes that are metal dependent and structurally symmetric, supporting models of early #biochemical #evolution. This expansion trajectory suggests distinct hypotheses regarding the tempo, mode and timing of metabolic pathway evolution"

nature.com/articles/s41559-024

NaturePrimitive purine biosynthesis connects ancient geochemistry to modern metabolism - Nature Ecology & EvolutionConstructing a biosphere-scale model of the evolutionary history of metabolism based on >12,000 biochemical reactions, the authors show that a bottleneck in purine synthesis prevents metabolic expansion from geochemical precursors.
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