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Revision as of 21:47, 9 October 2017
Dalhousie iGEM 2017
Softwood waste from the lumber industry contains cellulose, which can be turned into glucose and used to make biofuel. 01
We hypothesized that the porcupine microbiome must contain an enzyme that can break down cellulose, as bark is food. 02
We put these genes into E.coli to see if they could then digest cellulose down. 05
We put the E.coli into a bioreactor with cellulose to see if it gets broken down. In the future this can be combined with yeast to transform in finally into biofuel! 06