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Fundamentally apart

They can be used to manufacture dye, animal feed and vegan seafood. Microbes. Now a Canadian startup is using them to produce an environmentally-friendly cleaning agent. Surfactants are extracted using bacterial cultures in a sustainable process.These disperse oil by enveloping oil particles and separating them, making it easy to remove dirt. Both harmless and biodegradable, surfactants can be used...

Rational reaction

There are ‘sweet solutions’ for rare earths. Bacteria, meanwhile, can be used to break down metals. Now, a research team at Northwestern University is investigating how the tiny organisms can help rationalise chemical processes in an environmentally-friendly way. The team reprogrammed an anaerobic bacteria so that it could convert CO2 into two widely-used chemicals. Acetone is mainly used in...

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