1. Synthetic Genomics Inc., has filed controversial patents on synthetic bugs, which could make fuels such as ethanol or hydrogen. It is within weeks or months of creating the world's first free-living artificial organism - a tiny bacterium with only a few hundred genes. The benefits of such research could be enormous: not just drugs and fuels but also bugs that clean up pollution or flash when they detect explosives, plus a far deeper understanding of the basic mechanisms of biology.
2. It announced a deal with energy giant BPPLC to find and modify naturally occurring microbes that can turn coal or oil below the earth's surface into cleaner fuel.
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