Bacteria converted into ‘mini-factories’ for biofuels and vaccines
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 23:40
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have manipulated simple bacteria into constructing internal compartments where biofuels and vaccines can be produced. These micro-compartments eventually occupy almost 70 percent of the available space in a bacteria cell, enabling segregation of metabolic activities and, in the era of synthetic biology, representing an important tool by which defined micro-environments can be created for specific metabolic functions.