westurner
7 hours ago
ScholarlyArticle: "A synthetic cell-free pathway for biocatalytic upgrading of formate from electrochemically reduced CO2" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-025-00315-6
westurner
7 hours ago
NewsArticle: "Scientists Engineer Synthetic Metabolism That Eats CO2 Waste" (2025) https://scienceblog.com/scientists-engineer-synthetic-metabo... :
> The system, called ReForm, takes formate (a simple liquid made from captured carbon dioxide) and transforms it into acetyl-CoA, the molecular currency that sits at the center of every living cell’s metabolism