Molecules of triacylglycerol (TAG), formed by attaching three molecules of fatty acid (FA) to a glycerol backbone, are the main constituents of vegetable oil in plants and fats in animals and humans. ...

Widespread antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the associated rise of "superbugs" is a major public health threat. A leading cause is the misuse or overuse of antibiotics due to the paucity of rapid as...

Scientists from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), developed a way to objectively evaluate the novelty and impact of plethora of ...

The world’s first instrument system for Raman-activated Cell Sorting and Sequencing (RACS-SEQ) was recently developed in East China’s Qingdao City, allowing functional identification, sorting and se...

Single-cells are the basic unit of cellular life function and evolution on earth. Accurate and high-throughput sorting of single-cells are key tools for mechanistic dissection of functional heterogene...

Microalgae can convert CO2 and solar energy to oil, which provide a potential solution for clean-energy production and value-added utilization of CO2. For the key question of enhancing the efficiency ...

Microbiota are present everywhere in the biosphere. Can we employ them as indigenous “biosensors”, to diagnose and predict the health of their ecosystems? A joint research team from the Single-Cell ...

Efficient biological degradation of cellulosic biomass has been recognized as one major bottleneck in production of cellulosic liquid fuels or biogas, and as the one key step in the carbon cycle of bi...

Phytohormones are a class of signaling molecules that are produced intrinsically in plants. In higher plants, phytohormones are usually synthesized in one location and then transported to another loca...

Under stress conditions, microalgae can accumulate large quantities of oil, which can be converted to biodiesel. However, in microalgae, multiple forms of storage carbon products deprived from the pho...