Many marine organisms by carbon dioxide dissolved in sea water and various mineral ions to create a rock solid case, Belcher has created this for inspiration and transformation of yeast. (Her doctoral thesis in 1997 as the research object is to abalone, abalone shell composed mainly of calcium carbonate, abnormal hard.)
Funded by the Italian ENI Group (Fortune 500 company, the headquarters of Italy, mainly engaged in oil refining), Massachusetts Institute of Technology transfer of this carbon dioxide, carbonate process takes two steps to complete. First, to capture carbon dioxide from the water. Second, the dissolved carbon dioxide and mineral ions to produce a solid carbonate.
Yeast does not normally respond to carbon dioxide and other self-made, so Belcher and her students must be reformed to express their abalone body similar to those in the genes. Those genes can communicate by encoding the production of enzymes and other proteins, thus promoting the mineralization of carbon dioxide in the process of movement. The researchers used computer modeling and other scientific methods to identify new proteins contribute to the mineralization process.
"We are trying to simulate the natural biological process," Belcher said. But "we do not intend to create a completely different organism and abalone."
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