{"id":706308,"date":"2010-03-31T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T22:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/cyanobacteria-ooze-fatty-acid-biofuel\/14686\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:56:28","slug":"renewable-biofuel-oozes-from-reprogrammed-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706308","title":{"rendered":"Renewable biofuel oozes from reprogrammed microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gizmag.com\/pictures\/hero\/fatty-acids.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"A population of Arizona State University's fatty acid-secreting cyanobacteria microbes\"><\/p>\n<p>It seems like every day, a new way of producing biofuel is being discovered. Within the past few years, we&#8217;ve reported on technology that harvests biofuel from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/enerken-edmonton-waste-to-biofuels\/14393\/\" >garbage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/7866\/\" >booze<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/research-um-celluosic-biofuel\/8972\/\" >crop waste<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/research-carbon-dioxide-methanol\/11483\/\" >carbon dioxide<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/gribble-enzymes-for-biofuel-industry\/14464\/\" >wood-munching marine isopods<\/a>. Now, Arizona State University has announced a new development in the harvesting of biofuel from cyanobacteria microbes &#8211; ASU researchers Xinyao Liu and Roy Curtiss have genetically engineered bacteria that literally ooze the stuff out of their skins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/algae\/\" rel=\"tag\">Algae<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bacteria<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/biofuel\/\" rel=\"tag\">Biofuel<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/enzyme\/\" rel=\"tag\">Enzyme<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/microbes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Microbes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Related Articles:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/self-destructing-bacteria-improves-biofuel-production\/13542\/\">This bacteria will self destruct (and improve renewable biofuel production)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/bacteria-convert-co2-into-fuel\/13601\/\">Bacteria engineered to convert greenhouse gas into liquid fuel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/biofuel-powered-jet-completes-transcontinental-flight\/10359\/\">Biofuel-powered jet completes transcontinental flight <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/airbus-commercial-airline-biofuel\/9350\/\">Airbus and Honeywell team up on alternative fuel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/commercial-biofuel-test-flight-completed\/10645\/\">Air New Zealand completes biofuel test flight<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/8133\/\">Boeing announce plans to accelerate bio-jet fuel development<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/C_A3nOMyae5lLkK_qT6q56AO6XU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/C_A3nOMyae5lLkK_qT6q56AO6XU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/C_A3nOMyae5lLkK_qT6q56AO6XU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/C_A3nOMyae5lLkK_qT6q56AO6XU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=NUl69hNHD1I:ukUHspiKS5U:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=NUl69hNHD1I:ukUHspiKS5U:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=NUl69hNHD1I:ukUHspiKS5U:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=NUl69hNHD1I:ukUHspiKS5U:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=NUl69hNHD1I:ukUHspiKS5U:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=NUl69hNHD1I:ukUHspiKS5U:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=NUl69hNHD1I:ukUHspiKS5U:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine\/~4\/NUl69hNHD1I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like every day, a new way of producing biofuel is being discovered. Within the past few years, we&#8217;ve reported on technology that harvests biofuel from garbage, booze, crop waste, carbon dioxide and wood-munching marine isopods. Now, Arizona State University has announced a new development in the harvesting of biofuel from cyanobacteria microbes &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XK4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807628,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706308\/revisions\/807628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}