Power-to-vitamins: microbes produce folate from simple basic ingredients

Biotechnology team obtains valuable byproduct in protein produc-tion

16-Sep-2024 - Take some carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen plus electricity from renewable sources – a bacterium and baker’s yeast need little more to produce proteins for human nourishment and the essential vitamin B9 in a conventional laboratory bioreactor system. This was the result achieved by a research ...