Most fish embryos that develop externally are exposed to an environment full of microbes.
Apparently, the microbes extracted from chambers in extreme systems that have never hosted a human before have a higher chance of containing microbes that could be developed into drugs to stop antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
By introducing foreign genes into microorganisms, it may be possible to develop strains of microbes that offer new solutions to such diverse problems as pollution, food and energy shortages, and the treatment and control of disease.
It is however essential to develop high performance microbes that are capable of producing biofuels with very high efficiency in order to compete with the fossil fuel.
Changing the way antibiotics are prescribed would enhance their effectiveness and make them safer, and may also reduce the likelihood that microbes will develop resistance to the medications, he said.
Andrew Camilli, a microbiologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, reasoned that microbes might develop defenses against the gut's acidity and become more acid tolerant with each trip through the human digestive tract.
In this case, the DNA was constructed for Microbia, another Cambridge biotech that is developing drugs and creating microbes that can be used in manufacturing chemicals.
Microbes swap genes, so antibiotic resistance developed in pigs can jump to microbes that infect humans in hospitals, locker rooms, schools or homes.
An idea developed by British botanist Potter [4] in 1911 was to produce electricity using microbes that oxidize organic molecules.
Verenium scientists have already developed a secret sauce of enzymes and microbes that ferment and distill biomass into ethanol.
