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+ December 22, 2008

Running on Yeast Power

In nature, yeast eat sugar and secrete alcohol. Amyris, a science-heavy start up out of UC Berkeley, has trained them to secrete the equivalent of gas. By 2010, it plans to be cranking out 200 million gallons a year and expanding.

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