{"id":217872,"date":"2025-07-14T19:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/chinese-team-says-carbon-dioxide-can-be-turned-into-sugar"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:06:30","slug":"chinese-team-says-carbon-dioxide-can-be-turned-into-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/chinese-team-says-carbon-dioxide-can-be-turned-into-sugar","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team says carbon dioxide can be turned into sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-team-says-carbon-dioxide-can-be-turned-into-sugar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial conversion of carbon dioxide into food and chemicals offers a promising strategy to address both environmental and population-related challenges while contributing to carbon neutrality,\u201d the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Bulletin in May.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing carbon dioxide to less complex molecules has proven successful, though the researchers said that generating long-chain carbohydrates \u2013 the most abundant substances in nature \u2013 has proven to be a challenge for scientists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn vitro biotransformation (ivBT) has emerged as a highly promising platform for sustainable biomanufacturing,\u201d the team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cArtificial conversion of carbon dioxide into food and chemicals offers a promising strategy to address both environmental and population-related challenges while contributing to carbon neutrality,\u201d the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Bulletin in May. Reducing carbon dioxide to less complex molecules has proven successful, though the researchers said that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217872","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}