Self-destructing bacteria improve biofuel production

A US research team has programmed a photosynthetic microbe to self-destruct, which removes a key obstacle to producing lower-cost, renewable biofuels

Eurekalert: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/asu-sbi120709.php

Research done at Arizona State University and the results were published in the Dec. 7 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.