Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Venter's Planet-Saving Bacterium

Fareed Zakaria writes in Newsweek : Craig Venter's Planet-Saving Bacterium "Genome pioneer Craig Venter wants to make a bacterium that will eat CO2 and produce fuel"

"In a Maryland lab, he's manipulating chromosomes in the hopes of creating an energy bug—a bacterium that will ingest CO2, sunlight and water, and spew out liquid fuel that can be pumped into American SUVs."

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