E.Coli could hold low-cost biofuels key

A biofuels research team based at the University of Colorado will use a multi-million dollar grant to look into how to produce cost-effective biofuels from E.Coli.

The US Department of Energy has awarded the project $9.2 million (€7 million) and the team will allegedly use a non-pathogenic strain of E.Coli to pinpoint any part of it that can be used to make biofuels or other chemicals.

The team also includes scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

E.Coli is a bacterium most commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.