Photorhabdus luminescens

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Name: Photorhabdus luminescens

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Bacteria engineered to pump out diesel from sugar

Genes from 2 different organisms brought together in E. coli Diesel fuel has been produced from sugar instead of petroleum by specially engineered bacteria."We put in glucose and out of the other end came a range of alkanes … that mimic exactly the retail ... [Published CBC - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: John Love, Bacteria, Diesel, Sugar

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

A child touches her pregnant mother's stomach at the last stages of her pregnancy in Bordeaux April 28, 2010.

Tagse. coli, stomach microbes, diesel biofuelYou may be unaware of it and most likely are, but the very guts in your stomach are a factory for microbes that could very well help power large trucks and other moving vehicles.Scientists have found a way ... [Published ITechPost - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Escherichia Coli (E. Coli), Biofuels, Microbe, John Love, Hydrocarbon

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Synthetic metabolic pathways for designer biofuels [Applied Biological Sciences]

Biofuels are the most immediate, practical solution for mitigating dependence on fossil hydrocarbons, but current biofuels (alcohols and biodiesels) require significant downstream processing and are not fully compatible with modern, mass-market internal ... [Published PNAS - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Biofuels, Hydrocarbon, Cinnamomum camphora, Photorhabdus luminescens, Nostoc

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"We put in glucose and out of the other end came a range of alkanes … that mimic exactly the retail diesel that you buy at the pump" said John Love, a biosciences researcher at the University of Exeter, in an interview that airs on Saturday...

Bacteria engineered to pump out diesel from sugar [Published CBC - Apr 26 2013]

"We wanted to make biofuels that could be used directly with existing engines to completely replace fossil fuels" biologist John Love of the University of Exeter in England said, as relayed by Scientific American

A child touches her pregnant mother's stomach at the last stages of her pregnancy in Bordeaux Apr ... [Published ITechPost - Apr 23 2013]

...roposition than making specialty oils or medicines, given the low cost and high volumes required to compete with the fuels made from fossil sources. "Fuel is actually a lot cheaper than artemisinin, so it has to be made in significantly larger quantities" Love notes. "That in itself is a challenge."

Gut Microbe Makes Diesel Biofuel [Published Yahoo! News - Apr 23 2013]

...Such plasmids are well known in the art (Botstein et al., Miami Wntr. SyTnp. 19:265-274, 1982; Broach, In: "The Molecular Biology of the Yeast Saccharomyces: Life Cycle and Inheritance" , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N Y , p. 445-470, 1981; Broach, Cell 28:203-204, 1982; Dilon et at., J Clin. Hematol. Oncol...

Methods of screening for introduction of DNA into a target cell [Published PharmCast - Mar 01 2013]