Engineered E. coli mass-produce key precursor to potent
biofuel
New lines of engineered bacteria can tailor-make key
precursors of high-octane biofuels that could one day replace gasoline,
scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at
Harvard University and the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical
School report in the June 24 online edition of Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
The same lines can also produce precursors of
pharmaceuticals, bioplastics, herbicides, detergents, and more.