NOVEL VERENIUM MICROBES ARE KEY TO CONVERTING BIOMASS TO ETHANOL

Engineered Strains of Microorganisms Enable the Conversion of Plant Sugars to Cellulosic Ethanol

Verenium's ground-breaking technology is based on the metabolic engineering of microorganisms. Its key element is a set of genetically engineered strains of bacteria that are capable of fermenting into ethanol essentially all of the sugars released from many types of cellulosic biomass.