Taiwan team engineers E. coli to produce n-butanol from glycerol

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By mmillikinJul 5, 2017, 6:00 am81 pts
Researchers at Feng Chia University in Taiwan have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce n-butanol from crude glycerol—a byproduct of the production of biodiesel. In an open-access paper in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels, they report that under microaerobic conditions, the engineered…

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