Pioneering research succeeds in producing industrially vital chemical through engineered bacteria
Metabolic engineering could herald the end of fossil fuels in industrial chemical production
28-Aug-2009 -
A team of South Korean scientists have succeeded in engineering the bacterium E. coli to produce the industrial chemical putrescine. The research, published in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, provides a renewable alternative to the production of this important chemical which is ...
bacteria
bioengineering
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