Advance toward producing biofuels without stressing global food supply
Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 16:49
in Mathematics & Economics
Scientists in California are reporting use of a first-of-its-kind approach to craft genetically engineered microbes with the much-sought ability to transform switchgrass, corn cobs, and other organic materials into methyl halides - the raw material for making gasoline and a host of other commercially important products.