<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/news/engineering-cyanobacteria-for-cross-cultural-exchange.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero>true</homehero><pubDate>04/03/2023</pubDate><title>Engineering Cyanobacteria for cross-cultural exchange</title><description>Cyanobacteria, photosynthetic microorganisms which have widespread uses in the production of pigments, antioxidants and supplements and potential ones in biofuels and plastics, have a new way to communicate with one another to control their population, researchers, including MPS graduate student Rees Rillema, show.</description><author/><hero-image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2023/cyano1.jpg" alt="Flasks of cyanobacteria"/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2023/cyano-square.jpg" alt="Flasks of cyanobacteria"/></image><tags><tag>research</tag><tag>students</tag></tags></item>