Sentence examples for engineered to consume from inspiring English sources

The United States has been more liberal than most other countries in granting patents on living things, ever since a Supreme Court decision in 1980 that allowed the patenting of a microbe genetically engineered to consume oil spills.

Microbes can be engineered to consume various carbon sources, and accumulate increased amounts of fatty acids with different composition.

In general, S. cerevisiae can be engineered to consume xylose either by expressing a xylose isomerase (XI) or by applying the XR/XDH pathway.

Previously, S. cerevisiae was engineered to consume xylose by introducing xylose isomerase (XI), or by introducing xylose reductase (XR) and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) (Jeffries, 2006; van Maris et al., 2007; Matsushika et al., 2009).

For example, we propose that xylodextrins released from the hemicellulose in sugarcane bagasse by using compressed hot water treatment (Hendriks and Zeeman, 2009; Agbor et al., 2011; Vallejos et al., 2012) could be directly fermented by yeast engineered to consume xylodextrins, as we have shown in proof-of-principle experiments.

We believe that the A. baylyi ADP1 gcd knockout strain could be used this way in making existing industrial bioprocesses more economically feasible as it can be engineered to selectively consume carbon sources, or other molecules like oxygen, that are harmful to the process.

Yeasts engineered to ferment xylose are not able to consume xylose until glucose is completely exhausted.

A plant can be engineered to protect itself by making and releasing terpenoid compounds when attacked by insect herbivores, which in turn attract predators to consume the pest.

How he seemed faultlessly engineered to bat.

Engineered to be the best of Energy Star".

It is engineered "to lock in hydration".