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Researchers successfully engineer E. coli to produce renewable propane; proof-of-concept

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Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. coli strain to increase propane yield, although the amounts are still far too low for commercialization. coli bacteria.

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Researchers engineer new pathway in E. coli to produce renewable propane

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Researchers at The University of Manchester, Imperial College London and University of Turku have made an advance toward the renewable biosynthesis of propane with the creation of a new synthetic pathway in E. coli , based on a fermentative butanol pathway. coli bacteria, using pathways based on fatty acid synthesis. Earlier post.)

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Video Friday: Lunar Transport

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ANYbotics ] In this video we present results from the recent field-testing campaign of the DigiForest project at Evo, Finland. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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Is Worldcoin a Crypto-currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?

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tried out in locations including California, Finland, and Kenya. Anna Stone , who leads commercial strategy for a nonprofit called Good Dollar. Martin Albrecht , a professor of information security at Royal Holloway, University of London. It’s just not yet clear how individual users will benefit.”.