e.coli biodiesel Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:31:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Iowa Engineers Aim to Produce Advanced Biofuels by Directed Mutation of Microbes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iowa-engineers-aim-to-produce-advanced-biofuels-by-directed-mutation-of-microbes-20121016/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iowa-engineers-aim-to-produce-advanced-biofuels-by-directed-mutation-of-microbes-20121016/#respond Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:30:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26741 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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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iowa-engineers-aim-to-produce-advanced-biofuels-by-directed-mutation-of-microbes-20121016/feed/ 0 26741 Heavily Modified E.Coli Bacteria to Make Biodiesel for Our Cars – Safe or Not? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/desmond-lun-ecoli-biodiesel-20100907/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/desmond-lun-ecoli-biodiesel-20100907/#respond Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:56:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10078 E.coli is often associated with food poisoning and sickness. An associate professor of computer science at Rutgers University in Camden, Desmond Lun, is trying to perform a computer simulation of how E.coli could be genetically modified to produce more fatty acids, and hence biodiesel.

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