University of Nebraska Lincoln: Engineered Microbe Excels at 'Breathing Rubber,' Could Curb Reliance on Petroleum
March 18, 2021
March 18, 2021
LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 18 (TNSJOu) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release:
Burning rubber? Tired. Breathing rubber? Inspired.
The single-celled microorganisms known as methanogens are, no surprise, known for emitting methane: in the guts of humans and other animals, in hydrothermal vents that gash the ocean floor -- almost anywhere, really, that oxygen is not.
But biochemist Nicole Buan and colleagues at the Univers . . .
Burning rubber? Tired. Breathing rubber? Inspired.
The single-celled microorganisms known as methanogens are, no surprise, known for emitting methane: in the guts of humans and other animals, in hydrothermal vents that gash the ocean floor -- almost anywhere, really, that oxygen is not.
But biochemist Nicole Buan and colleagues at the Univers . . .