The future of fuel is green, slimy, and reeks of fish. "Fish smell like fish because fish eat algae," says Imad Ajjawi, a geneticist at the synbio company Synthetic Genomics in La Jolla, CA that grows those smelly photosynthesizers.
This algae is also fatty, which probably isn't a word you'd typically associate with the goopy, mucky organism. But scientists like Ajjawi have spent decades dreaming about algae this fat.
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