Mind-Bending Microbes

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane March 8, 2011

New isobutanol-producing and protein-munching microbes from UCLA remind us that biofuels remain in the anything-but-static, eye-popping era of their development.

The Digest’s “mind-bending breakthrough” in-basket is overflowing this week with advances in the fermentation of protein into biofuels….

“Whoa,” you might say, “stop right there. Did you say fermenting protein into biofuels? You can’t do that.” Well, it turns out you can.

Which will be the central theme of today’s Top Story as we look at two different, but startling, discoveries bubbling up from scientific circles this week.

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