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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Recent UW–Madison PhD graduate Ben Hall's research showed it's possible to modify the Novosphingobium aromaticivorans bacterium to simultaneously produce two valuable chemicals from an underutilized part of plant cells called lignin.

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Chelsea Mamott / University of Wisconsin–Madison

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