Tag: Neel Joshi

  • Nation & World

    Yeasts get a boost from solar power

    Harvard researchers have started to combine bacteria with semiconductor technology that, similar to solar panels on a roof, harvests energy from light and, when coupled to the microbes’ surface, boosts their biosynthetic potential.

    5 minutes
    Yeast Molecules
  • Nation & World

    Recruiting bacteria for innovation

    A team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University sees biofilms as a robust new platform for designer nanomaterials that could help clean polluted rivers, manufacture pharmaceutical products, fabricate new textiles, and more.

    5 minutes