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2009-08-21 | permalink
Biofuels from GE algae - Craig Venter’s twist
On July 14th [Exxon] said it would put $300m into what is probably the biggest effort so far to create a new generation of biofuels—with a further $300m to come if things go well. The beneficiary of this largesse is Synthetic Genomics, a firm based in San Diego that is the commercial vehicle of Craig Venter [...] He proposes the industrial-scale culturing (biomanufacturing, as he describes it, rather than farming) of single-celled algae that have been genetically engineered to turn out fuel-ready hydrocarbons.
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2009-08-21 | permalink
Biofuels from GE algae - Craig Venter’s twist
On July 14th [Exxon] said it would put $300m into what is probably the biggest effort so far to create a new generation of biofuels—with a further $300m to come if things go well. The beneficiary of this largesse is Synthetic Genomics, a firm based in San Diego that is the commercial vehicle of Craig Venter [...] He proposes the industrial-scale culturing (biomanufacturing, as he describes it, rather than farming) of single-celled algae that have been genetically engineered to turn out fuel-ready hydrocarbons.
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