CARBON CATCHERS: High-Speed Storage Of CO2 Discovered In Bacteria Could Help Fight Climate Change

The filaments of the enzyme HDCR, which produces formic acid from gaseous hydrogen (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2), are wound around each other like a plait. Undated photo. Note: Licensed photo. (Verena Resch, luminous-lab.com/Newsflash) The filaments of the enzyme HDCR, which produces formic acid from gaseous hydrogen (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2), are wound around each other like a plait. Undated photo. Note: Licensed photo. (Verena Resch, luminous-lab.com/Newsflash)
Copyrights: Verena Resch, luminous-lab.com/Newsflash

25 July 2022
An international team of scientists has discovered a new way of high-speed storage of carbon dioxide in a bacterial enzyme that could eventually help fight climate change. The accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has led to a steadily worsening of the climate crisis, which has...