{"id":202,"date":"2016-11-21T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=202"},"modified":"2016-11-21T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T00:00:09","slug":"from-the-web-synthetic-process-converts-co2-faster-than-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2016\/11\/21\/from-the-web-synthetic-process-converts-co2-faster-than-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Synthetic Process Converts CO2 Faster than Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have managed to make a synthetic process\u00a0that converts CO2 into organic compounds<em> faster than plants<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-203\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-21-at-5.56.07-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-21-at-5-56-07-pm\" width=\"757\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-21-at-5.56.07-PM.png 757w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-21-at-5.56.07-PM-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-21-at-5.56.07-PM-500x221.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a study\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aah5237\" target=\"_blank\">published in\u00a0<i>Science<\/i><\/a>, the researchers detail how they managed to make a synthetic pathway that converts CO2 into organic compounds faster than plants. In order to find an enzyme to improve CO2 fixation, the researchers carefully selected 17 enzymatic compounds from nine organisms. These were engineered together using stepwise optimization to form a synthetic pathway that converts CO2 into organic molecules.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is still under development, but holds great promise for carbon fixation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/synthetic-photosynthesis-new-tech-recycles-carbon-dioxide-faster-than-plants\/\">more<\/a><\/strong> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have managed to make a synthetic process\u00a0that converts CO2 into organic compounds faster than plants. In a study\u00a0published in\u00a0Science, the researchers detail how they managed to make a synthetic pathway that converts CO2 into organic compounds faster than plants. In order to find an enzyme to improve CO2 fixation, the researchers carefully selected 17 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2016\/11\/21\/from-the-web-synthetic-process-converts-co2-faster-than-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Synthetic Process Converts CO2 Faster than Nature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[425248],"tags":[17503,41478,4433],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-leap","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-3g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}