{"id":22063,"date":"2014-08-19T03:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T01:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=22063"},"modified":"2014-08-18T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T11:46:17","slug":"dr-woo-turns-microalgae-succinic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/dr-woo-turns-microalgae-succinic-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Woo turns microalgae into succinic acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Dr Woo Han-min from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, and Sim Sang-joon, a professor from Korea University, has produced succinic acid from microalgae using genetically-modified bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study was aimed at developing a technique to make next-gen sustainable bio-chemical products that can respond to the depletion of fossil fuels and climate change,\u201d Dr Woo. His approach used an improved version of <em>Corynebacterium glutamicum<\/em>, which was used to produce amino acids and hexane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have presented a breakthrough in the technology for utilising microalgae,\u201d and Dr Woo. \u201cWe can use it for various areas, e.g. coating materials, compound plasticisers, urethane and solvents as well as bioplastics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research findings were first published online by Scientific Reports, an online open-access scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Dr Woo Han-min from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, and Sim Sang-joon, a professor from Korea University, has produced succinic acid from microalgae using genetically-modified bacteria. \u201cThis study was aimed at developing a technique to make next-gen sustainable bio-chemical products that can respond to the depletion of fossil [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[1566,7371],"class_list":["post-22063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-korea-institute-of-science-and-technology-kist","supplier-korea-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22063"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=22063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}