Anaerobic digestion technology of organic waste is considered sustainable and optimum. However, the process of anaerobic digestion at mesophilic and thermophilic temperatures is well understood and ...

Nearly half of us are natural methane producers. That's because some people’s gut microbiomes include methanogens, microbes that produce methane as a byproduct of digestion. While this doesn’t mean we ...

That’s where other microbes come in. Certain microbes, called methanogens, consume the hydrogen and convert it into methane. Methanogens are the only microbes that produce this compound. Study ...

More than 55 distinct classes of riboswitches that respond to small metabolites or elemental ions have been experimentally validated to date. The ligands sensed by these riboswitches are biased in ...

Ancestral ally? Methanogens may have a mutually beneficial relationship with the microbes that make short-chain fatty acids, the researchers say. They would need to do more research to be sure. If ...

AS: We got a significant award from the Gates Foundation to look into this. One approach is supplementing the rumen with organisms that are good competitors for hydrogen, but also naturally express ...

The team is interested in seeing how methanogens in the microbiome impact a diet that is intentionally aimed at helping participants lose weight. "You can see how important it is that the ...

‘Missing’ genes needed for the biosynthesis of a natural anticancer drug have been discovered by perturbing and analysing individual cells of yew trees.