‘Feed your gut, eat fibres’
Intestines fare better with fibres disguised as fruits and vegetables.
Research centre to be called Bioma
A competition resulted in this name for the yet-to-be-built center.
Microbiology
New methane-forming archaeon cultivated
The production of methane by microorganisms is more widespread than was thought.
Yeast production lines
PhD student uses gene-drive technology to change yeast into useful factories.
2.5 million for archaea research
Thijs Ettema is awarded European grant for research on the origin of…
Microbiologists join forces
WUR microbiologists will collaborate in new Wageningen Microbiome Centre (WMC).
Live&Learn: John van der Oost
Failure is useful. Therefore, this feature is about what didn’t work out.
‘We are archaea!’
Taxonomically, we are just a minor branch of the archaea.