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IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
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Termites in Your Tank Could the microbes that bugs use to digest wood be the answer to economic ethanol production? |
Wired
September 24, 2007
Evan Ratliff |
One Molecule Could Cure Our Addiction to Oil Scientists have long known how to turn trees into ethanol, but doing it profitably is another matter. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
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Brazil Doubles Down on Biofuel Start-up GraalBio wants to transform sugarcane waste into cellulosic ethanol |
Chemistry World
September 14, 2011
David Bradley |
Brewing up Synthetic Yeast Yeast with synthetic genomes could be very useful for medicinal chemists and drug companies. |
Chemistry World
August 22, 2014
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Yeast turned into morphine and opioid biofactories Genetically modified yeast can synthesize morphine and semisynthetic opioid pharmaceuticals, researchers in the US have shown. |
Chemistry World
May 20, 2010
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The first synthetic cell A chemically synthesised chromosome has for the first time been transplanted into a cell to produce a synthetic bacterium. |
Wired
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The Formula: From Grass to Gas The process behind converting raw plants to ethanol. |
Chemistry World
July 2008
Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Sparks of creation Chemists are at the forefront of synthetic biology, the burgeoning field that could soon create artificial life. |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2015
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Biotech breakthrough as yeast makes painkillers from sugar The first strain of yeast that can synthesize painkilling opioids from scratch using a sugar feedstock has been engineered by scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World
May 18, 2015
Simon Hadlington |
Opiate-producing yeast raises specter of 'home-brewed heroin' Science policy experts have called for urgent measures to be put in place to prevent strains of yeast that are capable of producing opiate drugs from falling into the hands of criminals. |
Chemistry World
November 2, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
How Best to Use Biomass? Researchers have developed an efficient way of turning renewable resources like vegetable oils -- and potentially biomass - into hydrogen-rich gas. The gas could be converted to synthetic fuels and industrial chemicals, or used in fuel cells. |
Chemistry World
May 25, 2011
Sarah Houlton |
Bacteria could turn coffee waste into drugs Scientists at the University of Iowa, US, have discovered a new bacterium that feeds on caffeine. They claim it could synthesise various drug molecules and intermediates, and might even be used to decaffeinate coffee waste. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2011
Sarah Corcoran |
Natural products go with the flow Technology that could bring flow chemistry into the domain of complex natural product synthesis has been developed by UK scientists. |
Chemistry World
February 12, 2013
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Biosynthesis of methylmercury discovered It's been acknowledged for years that methylmercury is produced by microorganisms far down the food chain, but what has not been known is how they do it. |
Chemistry World
October 10, 2007 |
Chemists Challenge EPA Pesticide Decision The US Environmental Protection Agency has approved a chemical for use as a fumigant pesticide that is widely believed to be carcinogenic and mutagenic, dismissing warnings from dozens of chemists. |
