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Artificial Life, Biofuels & Climate Change: The ABC Of Synthetic Biology

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Ross.

Last week the mainstream media was set alight by the news that scientists had created the world’s first artificial bacteria, leading to excitement at the applications of the science, accusations of playing God and bewilderment at the speed of new advances in synthetic biology.
Whilst ten years ago such ground-breaking advances in biochemistry were all focused [...]

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Algae Will Avert Climate Change… By Destroying The Human Race!

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by Ross.

Here at Energy-Saving News, we think algae’s great. From algae-based biofuels to algae batteries; from algae which produce hydrogen for fuel cell cars to cleaning up coal pollution and turning it into fuel, algae are beginning to dominate the cleantech environment.
However, the explosion in interest in algae as a bioengineering solution to climate change has [...]

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