SCIENCE

Algae

Season
1
Episode
13
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episode description

Could pond scum become the fuel of the future? Explore the amazing potential of algae and find out how the world’s entrepreneurs are using it to create the next generation of biofuels. Imagine living cells acting as memory devices, like biofuels brewing from yeast or a light receptor taken from algae that makes photographs on a plate of bacteria. With the new science of synthetic biology, the goal is to make biology easier to engineer so that new functions can be derived from living systems. Find out the tools that synthetic biologists are using and the exciting things they are building.

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