{"id":1907,"date":"2010-06-24T03:48:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T03:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2010-06-24T03:48:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T03:48:29","slug":"easel-biotech-turns-co2-to-ethanol-using-gm-algae-and-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/easel-biotech-turns-co2-to-ethanol-using-gm-algae-and-bacteria.html","title":{"rendered":"EASEL Biotech Turns CO2 to Ethanol Using GM algae and Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASEL Biotechnologies this week won a 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for Recycled Fuel Breakthroughs from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The brains behind the company belong to co-founder James C. Liao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UCLA.<\/p>\n<p>In his research at the university, Liao used genetically modified E. coli bacteria and cyanobacteria to streamline the photosynthesis process used by other algae-to-fuel processes. His \u201cone-pot bioprocessing\u201d approach enables the microorganisms to directly convert carbon dioxide into higher alcohols with between three and eight carbon atoms. Those alcohols can then be further processed to produce green fuels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbang.com\/award-winning-startup-aims-to-turn-co2-into-green-fuel_14578.html\">See More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EASEL Biotechnologies this week won a 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for Recycled Fuel Breakthroughs from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The brains behind the company belong to co-founder James C. Liao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UCLA. In his research at the university, Liao used genetically modified E. coli bacteria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}