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The Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up said that it has received a patent for an engineered form of cynobacteria, or blue-green algae, which grows in water and is capable of secreting biodiesel fuel. The company claims that it can make diesel fuel directly using only sunlight and waste carbon dioxide in glass bioreactors for as little as [...]
Synthetic Genomics along with Exon Mobil have been working on genetically engineering microalgae for producing algae oil. A similar approach is being followed by a start-up company based out of Cambridge is pretty much working on the same approach. Joule Unlimited is genetically altering photosynthetic micro organisms so that over their lifetime, they devote only [...]
When I was researching on the metabolic engineering aspects of algae to produce renewable fuels, my eyes caught upon this article- it squite Interesting and it provides a lot of useful insights on the strategies employed for genetic engineering microbes for fuel production. Using synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, or other advanced techniques to create novel [...]
Dark fermentation is in the news after Solazyme , an US based algae company delivered 1500 gallons of jet fuel to the US navy early July. Interestingly, this company ‘s approach ( Earlier post) is different from the rest, they grow genetically engineered algae in the dark and follow what is called the heterotrophic fermentation [...]
Algae genetic engineering simply means engineering the DNA of these algae to improve their abilities to yield oil. Genetic engineering finds its application on many aspects of algae, especially on biofuel algae. There is a need for algae engineering because the problem we are facing right now is that one algal strain is very unlikely [...]
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