Israeli Scientists Develop Bacteria Which "Eat" Carbon Dioxide

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Israeli researchers have developed bacteria fed only with carbon dioxide, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in central Israel reported on Wednesday.

These bacteria, which build the entire biomass of their body from the carbon in the air, may help develop future technologies that reduce greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and fight global warming, the Xinhua news agency reported.

According to the study, published in the journal Cell, these bacteria were completely weaned off sugar, after a nearly decade-long process.

The Israeli scientists have been able to "reprogram" E.coli bacteria, which consume sugars and release carbon dioxide, so they use carbon dioxide from the environment and produce the sugars they need to build their body.

The researchers mapped the genes that are essential to this process and added some of them to the bacteria genome in their lab.
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Just don't eat it all, because you know otherwise all life on earth will cease to exist (plant life needs CO2)....
 
Polymathic said:
They already exist. I'm pretty sure of it
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Yep, difference here is they don't consume sugars they need, they make sugars from the co2... I guess you could say strictly a co2 diet from what I gather /shrug
 
So this strain of bacteria does what any/every/all photosynthesizing plants do?
Wow - what a breakthrough.
 
The more/higher the levels of CO2, the more/faster plants grow.
The less/lower the levels of CO2, the less/slower plants grow.
Zero levels of CO2 = zero plant growth.
 
Every single disaster movie ever has taught me this is a very very bad idea.

Scientists thinking they can save us but unleashing even worse horrors.

No wonder old Musky is getting his lifeboat to Mars ready..
 
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