{"id":32849,"date":"2016-12-21T19:49:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/molecular-velcro-boosts-microalgaes-potential-in-biofuel-industrial-applications"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:56:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:56:46","slug":"molecular-velcro-boosts-microalgaes-potential-in-biofuel-industrial-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/molecular-velcro-boosts-microalgaes-potential-in-biofuel-industrial-applications","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Velcro boosts microalgae\u2019s potential in biofuel, industrial applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-velcro-boosts-microalgaes-potential-in-biofuel-industrial-applications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michigan State University scientists have engineered \u201cmolecular Velcro\u201d into to cyanobacteria, boosting this microalgae\u2019s biofuel viability as well as its potential for other research.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, featured in the current issue of <i>ACS Synthetic Biology<\/i>, show how MSU researchers have designed a surface display system to attach cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, to yeast and other surfaces. The proof-of-concept may improve the efficiency of harvesting algae as well as open avenues to improve the construction of artificial microbial communities for sustainable biofuel production or other industrial projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInadequate cyanobacterial toolkits limited our ability to come up with biological solutions,\u201d said Derek Fedeson, MSU graduate student and the study\u2019s co-lead author. \u201cSo, we wanted to add another tool to the toolbox to expand the capacity of these bacteria, which can harness solar energy for the production of useful compounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-12-molecular-velcro-boosts-microalgae-potential.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;12-molecular-velcro-boosts-mic...ntial.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan State University scientists have engineered \u201cmolecular Velcro\u201d into to cyanobacteria, boosting this microalgae\u2019s biofuel viability as well as its potential for other research. The findings, featured in the current issue of ACS Synthetic Biology, show how MSU researchers have designed a surface display system to attach cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, to yeast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32849","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65537,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32849\/revisions\/65537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}