Concerns over climate change have necessitated a rethinking of our transportation
infrastructure. One possible alternative to carbon-polluting fossil fuels is biofuels produced …

The ability to generate microorganisms that can produce biofuels similar to petroleum-based
transportation fuels would allow the use of existing engines and infrastructure and would …

Advanced biofuels produced by microorganisms have similar properties to petroleum-based
fuels, and can'drop in'to the existing transportation infrastructure. However, producing these …

The advancement of microbial processes for the production of renewable liquid fuels has
increased with concerns about the current fuel economy. The development of advanced …

Increased energy consumption coupled with depleting petroleum reserves and increased
greenhouse gas emissions have renewed our interest in generating fuels from renewable …

Volatility of oil prices along with major concerns about climate change, oil supply security
and depleting reserves have sparked renewed interest in the production of fuels from …

Amid grave concerns over global climate change and with increasingly strained access to
fossil fuels, the synthetic biology community has stepped up to the challenge of developing …

Highlights•Metabolic engineering enables microbial production of hydrocarbon fuels.•Yeasts
and E. coli can be engineered to produce fatty acid ethyl esters.•Monoterpenes are …

Microorganisms have been rich sources for natural products, some of which have found use
as fuels, commodity chemicals, specialty chemicals, polymers, and drugs, to name a few …

Next-generation biofuels must be compatible with current transportation infrastructure and
be derived from environmentally sustainable resources that do not compete with food crops …