Microbes produce fuels directly from biomass
Date: 10.2.2010
A collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a **microbe** that can produce an advanced **biofuel** directly from **biomass**. Deploying the tools of synthetic biology, the JBEI researchers engineered a strain of **Escherichia coli (E. coli)** bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel and other important chemicals derived from **fatty acids**.
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