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Engineered yeast could turn waste into food, plastics and other essentials
Mark Blenner is the McQueen-Quattlebaum Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Clemson University, in South Carolina. His research group engineers yeast and other cells to make value-added products using renewable and waste substrates. His work has been supported with funding from NASA's Space Technology Research Grants program in the Space Technologies Mission Directorate.
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