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Doing it in the Dark: Fuel from thin air, and beyond light

Doing it in the Dark: Fuel from thin air, and beyond light

May 23, 2013 |

Beyond fossil fuels, beyond light itself. And now, the direct production of drop-in biofuel blendstocks. All available from a microbial “cow”. This week in California, a research team from Shota Atsumi’s lab at the University of California, Davis have reported that they engineered Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, a strain of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, to grow without the […]

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