We are thrilled to announce that our project partners at IFEU – Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg GmbH won the Poster Award at EUBCE 2021, the world’s largest biomass conference and exhibition! The poster, titled “Life Cycle Assessment of Electromicrobial Production of Renewable Hydrocarbon Fuels“, takes a look at the environmental impact of what is commonly known as “e-fuels”…
This year started with a significant breakthrough by scientists from the Max Planck Institute (Germany) which is presented in their recent Nature Chemical Biology publication. Their research has redesigned the model biotechnological bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli) to live and feed on methanol and formate: a possibility that serves as a stepping stone towards future endeavors aiming at recycling CO2…
The German radio station Deutschlandfunk has featured a segment dealing with synthetic biology as a tool against climate change in their regular science broadcast series Forschung aktuell on 5 August 2019. Hellmuth Nordwig, the host, talked about different strategies of fighting the greenhouse effect using synthetic biology. One of the guests was our eForFuel project coordinator: Dr. Arren Bar-Even from the…
eForFuel researchers Dr. Arren Bar-Even from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Biology and Ron Milo from the Weizmann Institute of Science together with their teams created a strain of E. coli that can grow solely on carbon dioxide. By using genetic engineering and lab evolution the scientists designed the bacterium to swap its sugar meals for CO2. Their work…
At the beginning of this year, German scientist and science journalist Katrin Weigmann published an article called „Fixing Carbon“ in EMBO Reports. The article gives an overview about ongoing projects in genetic engineering which are exploring ways of “harnessing nature’s ability to capture CO2 from the atmosphere”. Carbon fixation solutions are an urgent issue in mitigating or stopping global climate change. Dr.…
Something else we have been working on over the summer is this short clip explaining what eForFuel is all about, including our approaches and processes. We designed the animation to be smooth, flowing and easy to understand. Have a look and let us know what you think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgXrZVxoO5I
Our busy summer is over and two research papers by the eForFuel Team have been published. Find them here and keep checking back for new research results!
This week we brought out a joint press release and published it across Europe. Each research partner adapted it, and highlighted their role and work within the project, so have a look at the general text, and then scroll to the bottom to check out the press release in multiple languages. eForFuel: Fuels from CO2 and Electricity By: Arren Bar-Even and Markus…
