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Laboratory-Made CO2-Eating Bacteria Could Help Solve Climate Change, Says Scientists

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Laboratory-Made CO2-Eating Bacteria Could Help Solve Climate Change, Says Scientists

The crew used "metabolic rewiring" to further convert the E-coli's food intake to make it similarly consume carbon dioxide to a plant. The rewiring included adding genes that metabolize CO2 and remove genes that usually process sugar compounds. 

Study co-author Shmuel Gleizer, a Weizmann Institute of Science postdoctoral fellow, said he and his team wanted to see from an essential scientific perspective if such a significant transformation in the diet of bacteria is possible.