UCLA engineers develop new metabolic pathway for more efficient conversion of glucose into biofuels; possible 50% increase in biorefinery yield
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OCTOBER 1, 2013
The new pathway is intended to replace the natural metabolic pathway known as glycolysis, a series of chemical reactions that nearly all organisms use to convert sugars into the molecular precursors that cells need. Liao (2013) Synthetic non-oxidative glycolysis enables complete carbon conservation. —Bogorad et al.
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