Can Carbon Fixing Bacteria and Synthetic Biology Save the Planet?

Plants are not the only life on Earth that use carbon dioxide as a nutrient to grow. A type of bacteria called cyanobacteria also use carbon dioxide to grow, as do green algae and single-celled organisms called diatoms. In cyanobacteria and other photosynthetic organisms, the process of converting carbon dioxide gas into an organic building block is called carbon fixation. Increasing carbon fixation in plants that are used as food crops for people or animals will improve the yield of those crops. Enabling this process in other organisms could help limit or reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. <a href="https://medium.com/swlh/can-carbon-fixing-bacteria-and-synthetic-biology-save-the-planet-b876960568fa">Website</a>