Scientists work to plug microorganisms into the energy grid
...orward. Andreas Schirmer from the company LS9 in South San Francisco describes a unique strategy. LS9 has engineered a proprietary microbe to produce ultraclean diesel in a one-step process. They have discovered a way to exploit the pathway that microbes use to make energy-rich fatty acids for the synthesis o...LS9's UltraClean Diesel Exceeds United States & Brazilian Fuels Specifications
Continuing its rapid progress toward commercialization of advanced biofuels, LS9, the Renewable Petroleum Company™, today announced that its UltraClean™ Diesel product exceeds American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) D6751 and Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum ANP-7 spec...Monitoring Microbial Populations Using Real-Time qPCR on the MJ Research Opticon 2 System
... of 15cm with a 2.2-cm diameter corer. The cores were taken in late April, at the end of the second growing season of the experiment. The ultraclean Soil DNA Kit (Mo Bio Laboratories, Solana Beach, CA) was used to extract total DNA from a 0.5g sub-sample of the consolidated co...Protocol for GenomePlex Whole Genome Amplification from Soil
... assays and BeadArray analysis. II. Product Components ultraclean Soil Kit by Mo Bio Laboratories, Inc. (12800-50) GenomePlex Whole Genom... IV. Protocol for Extraction of DNA from Soil Performed with ultraclean Soil Kit by MO Bio Laboratories Inc. Add 0.5 gm of soil sample to 2...