{"id":210890,"date":"2025-04-08T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/green-recipe-engineered-yeast-boosts-d-lactic-acid-production"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:11:11","slug":"green-recipe-engineered-yeast-boosts-d-lactic-acid-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/green-recipe-engineered-yeast-boosts-d-lactic-acid-production","title":{"rendered":"Green recipe: Engineered yeast boosts D-lactic acid production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/green-recipe-engineered-yeast-boosts-d-lactic-acid-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Constructed strain achieves record-high yield from methanol, advancing ecofriendly biomanufacturing. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered the ideal genetic \u201crecipe\u201d to turn yeast into a tiny yet powerful eco-friendly factory that converts methanol into D-lactic acid, a key compound used in biodegradable plastics and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p>This approach could help reduce reliance on petroleum-based processes and contribute to more sustainable chemical production.<\/p>\n<p>Lactic acid is widely used in food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and bioplastics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constructed strain achieves record-high yield from methanol, advancing ecofriendly biomanufacturing. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered the ideal genetic \u201crecipe\u201d to turn yeast into a tiny yet powerful eco-friendly factory that converts methanol into D-lactic acid, a key compound used in biodegradable plastics and pharmaceuticals. This approach could help reduce reliance on petroleum-based processes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,19,1506,412,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-chemistry","category-food","category-genetics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}