UCLA researchers engineer E. coli to produce record-setting amounts of alternative fuel

Researchers at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a way to produce normal butanol — often proposed as a “greener” fuel alternative to diesel and gasoline — from bacteria at rates significantly higher than those achieved using current production methods.

The findings, reported online in the journal Applied and Environmental [...]

UCLA researchers engineer E. coli to produce record-setting amounts of alternative fuel