Bacteria as CO2 recycling powerhouse

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…

Synthetic Biology against Climate Change

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…