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Archive for the 'Microbial Biotechnology' Category

For most people, the name “E. coli” is synonymous with food poisoning and product recalls, but a professor in Texas A&M University’s chemical engineering department envisions the bacteria as a future source of energy, helping to power our cars, homes and more.

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Researchers at the Biodesign Institute are using the tiniest organisms on the planet — bacteria — as a viable option to make electricity. In a new study featured in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues Cesar Torres and Bruce Rittmann have gained critical insights that may lead to commercialization [...]

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The combination of beer, wastewater, microbes, fuel cells, high school students and teachers sounds like a witches’ brew for an old –fashioned, illicit ‘60s beach party.
Microbial fuel cells turn on the juice
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Artificial DNA with encoded information can be added to the genome of common bacteria, thus preserving the data. The technique was developed at Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus. If you think those USB flash memory “thumbdrives” are small, check this data storage out.
LiveScience.com

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IT can take years, sometimes decades, for the commercial applications of a scientific or intellectual breakthrough to become apparent — like the notion that brainless bacteria communicate through networks to cause diseases that can also wreak social or economic havoc.
The New York Times

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