Biomass Magazine

Cutting-Edge Co-Culture

By Anna Austin

January 01, 1970

University of California-San Francisco researchers have genetically engineered a brewer's yeast and co-cultured it with a cellulose-eating bacterium. The symbiotic relationship of the two microbes has created a novel process to convert biomass into methyl halides.

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