Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Maren Wehrs inspect a bioreactor full of their Bluebelle strain at JBEI. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)Scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute developed a new biosynthetic production pathway which could provide a sustainable alternative to conventional synthetic blue dye. The highly efficient fungi-based platform may also open the door for producing many other valuable biological compounds that are currently very hard to manufacture.

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