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Iowa Engineers Aim to Produce Advanced Biofuels by Directed Mutation of Microbes

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:30:50 +0000

By pyrolyzing biomass such as cornstalks and sawdust and feeding the oil product to the microbes, a new generation of biofuels is being produced. However, the microbes are facing some difficulties which the researchers from Iowa State University are trying to solve by allowing the microbes to adapt to the oil feed via genetic mutation. […]

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Self-Aware E.coli Bacteria Producing Three Times More Biofuel

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:25:29 +0000

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have improved the way that genetically-modified E.coli bacteria can produce biofuels from ethanol and fatty acids. They have developed a genetic sensor that allows the bacteria to regulate their gene expression as a response to varying levels of ethanol or fatty acids. So far, the biofuel production by […]

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Suicidal Genetically Modified Cyanobacteria Generating Biofuels

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:41:56 +0000

They used cyanobacteria because they are easy to manipulate genetically and have a higher biofuel output capacity than any plant crops currently used to produce fuels.

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