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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol. Here we have harnessed the power of microbes to convert carbon dioxide into value-added multi-carbon compounds in a usable biofuel. —Wei Bai. Ranaivoarisoa, T.O.,

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DARPA awards WUSTL researcher $860,000 to engineer E. coli to produce gasoline-range molecules

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Fuzhong Zhang, assistant professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) a Young Faculty Award worth $860,000 to engineer the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce gasoline-range molecules. Zhang is the first faculty member at Washington University in St.

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System links PM 2.5 —Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. Previous studies have found that PM 2.5

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Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes

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A team led by the University of Alberta has confirmed that inorganic mercury (Hg) found worldwide in ocean water is transformed into monomethylmercury (MMHg)—a potent and bio-accumulative neurotoxin—in the seawater. Louis, Holger Hintelmann, Jane L. —Igor Lehnherr. Igor Lehnherr, Vincent L. Fitzgerald and Thomas W.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg. Braun, University of Missouri, Columbia. Luca Comai, University of California, Davis. Stephen Kresovich, University of South Carolina, Colombia. Jan Leach, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

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New JBEI Methodology Speeds Search for Cellulosic Biofuel Microbes

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Working with Keasling on this study were Rajat Sapra, a biochemist with Sandia National Laboratories who directs the enzyme optimization program at JBEI, and Yinjie Tang, a chemical engineer now with Washington University in St. The JBEI researchers were able to complete their metabolic studies on G. Tang et al.

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PNNL-led team designs highly active cobalt-based PGM-free catalyst for fuel cells

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They then used high-temperature pyrolysis to convert the atoms to catalytically active sites within the framework. Along with PNNL, researchers from Washington University in St. A two-step encapsulation and ligand-exchange approach effectively introduces CoN 4 complexes into the ZIF-8 micropores. —Yuyan Shao.

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