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Jay Keasling and Fuzhong Zhang, Joint BioEnergy Institute

Caption: Jay Keasling and Fuzhong Zhang at the Joint BioEnergy Institute obtained a threefold increase in the microbial production of biodiesel from glucose using a dynamic sensor-regulator system they and JBEI’s James Carothers developed.

Credit: Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab

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