Biofuel Breakthrough with Engineered Bacteria

The first step in biofuel production is to break down biomass— ...

Breakthrough biotechnology enables engineered bacteria to churn ...

EU-funded researchers altered the genetic make-up of Escherichia coli to produce biofuel using three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients.

Engineered Bacteria - The Next Big Disruptor? - Yahoo Finance

The report offers insights into how microbial technologies are reshaping industries, including agriculture, where bacteria improve soil health, ...

Bacteria for Blastoff: Using Microbes to Make Supercharged New ...

“This biosynthetic pathway provides a clean route to highly energy-dense fuels that, prior to this work, could only be produced from petroleum ...

Biotech Breakthrough: Trees Engineered to Replace Fossil Fuels

Researchers have engineered poplar trees with altered lignin content that are more easily degraded by microbes, paving the way for sustainable chemical ...

Turning bacteria into butanol biofuel factories - UC Berkeley Research

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes.

Engineers unveil breakthrough in ultra-clean biofuel technology

"The current research demonstrates how viscous bio-waste can be transformed to clean energy by the Baylor combustion technology," said lead ...

Breakthrough: Using Microbes to Make Advanced Biofuels - YouTube

Jay Keasling, Berkeley Lab's Associate Director for Bioscience and the CEO of DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), explains how special ...

Bacteria brew energy-dense biofuels - C&EN

A group led by Jay Keasling at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has now taken the first steps toward making such fuels with engineered bacteria.

Biofuels could be made from bacteria that grow in seawater rather ...

The breakthrough behind this approach is the ability to re-engineer the microbe's genome so to change its metabolism and create different ...

Tiny Microbes Could Brew Big Benefits for Green Biomanufacturing

A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has engineered bacteria to produce new-to-nature ...

Lawrence Livermore scientists discover bacterial resistance to ...

Lawrence Livermore researchers discovered a resistance mechanism in a rainforest soil bacterium that enables E. coli to grow and produce biofuel in the ...

Bacteria turn switchgrass into advanced biofuels

Jay Keasling and his colleagues at the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered bacteria ... breakthroughs needed to make production of ...

Breakthrough in bioethanol production: genetically modified yeast ...

The researchers have developed an innovative approach to prevent bacterial contamination, which can significantly reduce the efficiency and profitability of ...

5 Synthetic Biology Discoveries Accelerating Global Sustainability

Believe it or not, bacteria may one day send us to space and yeast may power trans-Atlantic flights. As a renewable alternative to fossil fuels, ...

Synthetic biology breakthrough may fuel future - SCI

They then engineered the same strain to express hemicellulases, enzymes that break down hemicellulose, a step towards bacteria that can produce biodiesel direct ...

Biofuel breakthrough made from microbes - CNET

Government researchers say they've successfully engineered a substance called bisabolane into a biosynthetic alternative to diesel fuel.

High-octane bacteria could ease pain at the pump - Wyss Institute

New lines of engineered bacteria can tailor-make key precursors of high-octane biofuels that could one day replace gasoline, scientists at ...

Recent advances in metabolic engineering of microorganisms for ...

Methanotrophic bacteria are also an important source of bioproducts for biofuel production. Systems metabolic engineering of such bacterium has ...

Engineering microbes to produce biofuels - ScienceDirect.com

Recent advances in microbial engineering offer the possibility to convert renewable resources into biofuels [5•]. After chemical treatment of feedstocks, ...