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12 2013
Biologist Cui Qiu carries out tests on the germ clostridium, in a bid to produce new biofuels. Photo: Dr Cui Qiu
Biologist Cui Qiu manipulates genes of little-known bacteria to make them superstars of fuel production. In one recent achiev...
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12 2013
Metagenomics method directly sequences and dynamically analyses taxonomic and functional information of microbial communities, which could potentially optimize bio-processes behind some key bioenergy applications such as cellulose degradation, pol...
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12 2013
The most commonly used method for single cell isolation is Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) currently. However, it needs fluorescence labeling normally, and only obtains limited phenotypes, conducting hardly “in situ” identificati...
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12 2013
Clostridium thermocellum and Clostridium cellulolyticum are typical cellulosome-producing Clostridium strains that can produce ethanol from cellulosic substrates, and have been considered as the most promising candidates for bioconversion of ligno...
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12 2013
Alcohols and polyols are important biomass-based chemicals. Starting from simple biomass-based building blocks, such as ethanol, butanol, acetone, 5-hydroxyfurfural or glycerol, a series of new synthetic routes to different biomass-based alcohols ...
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12 2013There has been a continuing rise in the global demand for liquid transport fuels. Biomass is the only carbon containing resource in sustainable energy, and the new process route for dimethyl ether (DME)-to-gasoline offers a desired solution. At pr...
