US: JU engineers promising biofuel organism

A Cambridge, Massachusetts based biotechnology company, Joule Unlimited, has developed a genetically engineered organism which is claimed to secrete ethanol or biodiesel fuel when exposed to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. The organism, which has been given the name cyanobacterium can, says JU’s CEO Bill Sims, be manipulated to produce Subscribe to Automotive World to … Continued

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• March 7, 2011