In California, iDiverse announced that it has successfully modified yeast to be highly resistant to a number of lethal stresses normally encountered in the bioproduction of fuel ethanol. In doing so, iDiverse has enabled the yeast to generate significantly more ethanol. The technology keeps cells alive in extreme conditions like those found in biofuel production processes and is applicable to current fuel ethanol manufacturing processes using corn and sugar cane as feedstocks and also to those being developed to use cellulosic biomass.
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