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  • Bacteria based battery

    From the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a battery based on bacteria production of electrical charge has been announced. Led by Dr. Tom Clarke, the team shown for the first time the exact proteins needed to allow for bacteria to…
  • Beer byproducts, a new biofuel

    A brewery million gallon waste bioreactor Among the waste water being turned into biofuels , Anheuser-Busch's beer facility has a sludge that looks quite potential to researchers. Cornell University's Largus T. Angenent and Jeffery J. Werner took samples…
  • MIT Researchers Developing Programmable Bacteria

    Segments of DNA can perform basic computing functions (NAND), and code the answer by emitting green flourescent protein (GFP) (image via Nature ) What happens when the world runs out of silicon? Biological circuits could replace minerals as storehouses…
  • Bacteria Poised to Replace Automated Machines

    A batch of beer that brews itself? Water that adjusts its own pH? A completely organic carbon monoxide detector? With bacterial DNA circuitry, such things are now possible. Bacteria can be programmed to respond to changes in temperature, pH, oxygen level…