Another flask (IMAGE)

University at Buffalo

Another flask

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A strain of E. coli that doesn’t endanger human health grows in a flask full of nutrients (the yellow broth). In a study, scientists genetically engineered such E. coli to convert glucose into a class of fatty acids, which the team then transformed into a hydrocarbon called an olefin.

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Douglas Levere / University at Buffalo

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