{"id":228717,"date":"2026-01-10T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/commercially-viable-biomanufacturing-designer-yeast-turns-sugar-into-lucrative-chemical-3-hp"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:13:29","slug":"commercially-viable-biomanufacturing-designer-yeast-turns-sugar-into-lucrative-chemical-3-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/commercially-viable-biomanufacturing-designer-yeast-turns-sugar-into-lucrative-chemical-3-hp","title":{"rendered":"Commercially viable biomanufacturing: Designer yeast turns sugar into lucrative chemical 3-HP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/commercially-viable-biomanufacturing-designer-yeast-turns-sugar-into-lucrative-chemical-3-hp2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a tiny, acid-tolerant yeast, scientists have demonstrated a cost-effective way to make disposable diapers, microplastics, and acrylic paint more sustainable through biomanufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>A key ingredient in those everyday products is acrylic acid, an important industrial chemical that gives disposable diapers their absorbency, makes water-based paints and sealants more weather-proof, improves stain resistance in fabric, and enhances fertilizers and soil treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Acrylic acid is converted from a precursor called 3-hydroxypropanoic acid, or 3-HP, which is made almost exclusively from petroleum through chemical synthesis\u2014an energy-intensive process. But 3-HP can also be produced from renewable plant material by using engineered microbes to ferment plant sugars into this high-value chemical. Until now, however, the biomanufacturing process has not proven profitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a tiny, acid-tolerant yeast, scientists have demonstrated a cost-effective way to make disposable diapers, microplastics, and acrylic paint more sustainable through biomanufacturing. A key ingredient in those everyday products is acrylic acid, an important industrial chemical that gives disposable diapers their absorbency, makes water-based paints and sealants more weather-proof, improves stain resistance in fabric, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228717","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}