Can engineered bugs help generate biofuels?
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
The versatile organism Lactococcus lactis, the workhorse bacterium that helps turn milk into cheese, may also be valuable in the understanding of how microbes turn the organic compound cellulose into biofuels. New research suggests the bacterium can be engineered to transform plant material into biofuels or other chemicals.