The European leg of the Microbiome R&D Forum is gearing up to inform industry professionals on the opportunities of the microorganism, which can be used in cosmetic preventative treatments, cures, therapies and BFW supplements.
The cosmetics maker has decided to focus its skin R&D efforts on human microbiomes, a collection of microbes inhabiting a person’s body which controls and regulates health.
As the quest for natural substitutes to petroleum-based plastics continues, scientists at the Polytechnic University of Catalonidia have discovered a microorganism in South America that produces poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB), which will come as good...
Germany-based BASF has opened a new white biotechnology and microbiology research centre in New York as it looks to develop new antimicrobial products for the personal care and health industries.
Merck Millipore has acquired the microbiology business of Biotest AG, as it seeks to complement its portfolio in the growing segment of industrial microbiology for contamination detection.
Researchers in the UK say they have found a way of isolating
bacteria that can prevent breath and feet odour - a discovery that
could eventually help in the formulation of more effective
treatments, reports Simon Pitman.