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Sustainable manufacturing with synthetic biology

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Producing commodity chemicals in bacteria that live on industrial air pollution captures more greenhouse gases than it emits.

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Fig. 1: Synthetic biology promotes a circular carbon economy.

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  1. Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Corinne D. Scown & Jay D. Keasling

  2. Life-Cycle, Economics, and Agronomy Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA

    Corinne D. Scown

  3. Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Corinne D. Scown

  4. Energy & Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Corinne D. Scown

  5. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Jay D. Keasling

  6. The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark

    Jay D. Keasling

  7. Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Institute for Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, China

    Jay D. Keasling

  8. Biofuels and Bioproducts Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA

    Jay D. Keasling

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Scown, C.D., Keasling, J.D. Sustainable manufacturing with synthetic biology. Nat Biotechnol 40, 304–307 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01248-8

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