Altered microbes turn biomass directly into fuel

Using the tools of synthetic biology a US team has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.

U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/01/27/microbes-produce-biofuels/

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Published online in Nature 28 January 2010

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