Thursday, February 01, 2007

Turning sugar into diesel?

Sugar + programmable yeast = diesel. Supposedly.
Ethanol is made by adding sugar to yeast, but Amyris believes that it can reprogram the microbes to make something closer to gasoline.

Slashdot | Biology Could Be Used To Turn Sugar Into Diesel

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