This is a bacterium that normally has a diet of simple sugars. Scientists, however, came and re-engineered the bacterium and transformed it into one that builds its cells by absorbing carbon dioxide, much like plants. This could lead into modified microbes that suck carbon dioxide out of the air, turning it into medicines and other high-value compounds.
“The implications of this are profound,” says Dave Savage, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved with the work. Such advances, he says, could “ultimately make us change the way we teach biochemistry.”
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Did it work so well that someone forgot to breathe?
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