According to a collaboration led by the Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), they have successfully developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.
Making use of synthetic biology, the JBEI researchers have engineered a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel and other important chemicals that are derived from fatty acids.
The Chief Executive Officer for JBEI, Jay Keasling said that the fact that microbes can produce a diesel fuel directly from biomass with no additional chemical modifications is exciting and important and a leading scientific authority on synthetic biology.
