Powered by renewable energy, microbes turn CO2 into protein and vitamins

Experimental set up CREDIT Largus T. Angenent

Source: Lisa Schmitz

Researchers can harvest protein and vitamin B9 from microbes by feeding them nothing much more than hydrogen, oxygen, and CO2, a new study reveals. 

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