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US-based LanzaTech has discovered a microbe that ferments gas so that it can be converted into ethanol – a pure alcohol used as fuel.

We've been working with Neurospora, the microbe that ferments peanut cake in Java.

However, they host a variety of microbes that can ferment the material.

Verenium scientists have already developed a secret sauce of enzymes and microbes that ferment and distill biomass into ethanol.

A gut microbe that stops food allergies.

Further, TCDF treatment enriched Butyrivibrio spp., common butyrate-producing gut microbes, that are able to ferment a wide range of sugars and cellodextrins (Russell 1985).

C. acetobutylicum, as a strict anaerobic bacterium, was one of the few microbes that are able to ferment xylose and other pentoses [ 26].

"That ferment," Dr. Kates said, "is the most encouraging sign".

After harvest, cacao seeds and their surrounding fruit pulp are typically placed in heaps or boxes and fermented under the influence of naturally occurring microbes that multiply using the sugar from the pulp as an energy source.

Some researchers are getting even more ambitious, turning ordinary microbes into superbugs: microbes that have been genetically enhanced to perform certain functions, like breaking down cellulose, extracting its sugars and fermenting the sugar into ethanol.

Two papers published last week highlight microbes that fall in the "good microbe" category.