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Jan 21, 2012

In Science this week, researchers in the US and Chile report a method of producing biofuel from brown macroalgae using microbes. The team discovered a 36-kilobase pair DNA fragment in Vibrio splendidus that encodes enzymes for alginate transport and metabolism.

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