News from the Chronicles - June 2018

Biomass
UGA, NREL researchers create novel genetic method

Researchers from the University of Georgia, in conjunction with researchers at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), have developed a new genetic engineering technique that dramatically improves an enzyme’s ability to break down biomass. Ellen Neidle, professor of microbiology at UGA, and her lab team helped create the novel method known as Evolution by Amplification and Synthetic Biology (EASy) that enables…