{"id":6731,"date":"2017-10-03T06:10:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2017-10-03T06:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:10:56","slug":"bioreactors-on-a-chip-renew-promises-for-algal-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/bioreactors-on-a-chip-renew-promises-for-algal-biofuels.html","title":{"rendered":"Bioreactors on a Chip Renew Promises for Algal Biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers from the Cornell-affiliated\u00a0Boyce Thompson Institute\u00a0(BTI) and Texas A&M University have found an\u00a0exciting new technology that may revolutionize the search for the perfect algal strain: algal droplet bioreactors on a chip.\"\"<\/p>\n

A single algal cell is captured in a tiny droplet of water encapsulated by oil and\u00a0millions of algal droplets squeeze onto a chip about the size of a quarter. Each droplet is a micro-bioreactor, a highly controlled environment in which algal cells can grow and replicate for several days, forming a genetically homogenous colony that goes through its typical biological reactions, including the production of lipids.<\/p>\n

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Researchers from the Cornell-affiliated\u00a0Boyce Thompson Institute\u00a0(BTI) and Texas A&M University have found an\u00a0exciting new technology that may revolutionize the search for the perfect algal strain: algal droplet bioreactors on a chip. A single algal cell is captured in a tiny droplet of water encapsulated by oil and\u00a0millions of algal droplets squeeze onto a chip about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,63,9,618,549,615,576],"tags":[200,136],"class_list":["post-6731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-cultivation","category-algae-cultivation-biofuel","category-algae-fuel-research","category-innovations","category-photobioreactors-algae-cultivation","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-biofuels","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6734,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731\/revisions\/6734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}