MSU researchers receive $1.8 million to study methane-converting microbes
(WorldNews Environment)

BOZEMAN - Montana State University researchers have received $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation for a collaborative project to study methane-consuming microbes and develop ways of using them to make commercial products such as plastics. The NSF awarded a total of $6 million in August to the research team, which includes collaborators at MSU as well as the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and the University of Oklahoma. The project`s abbreviated name is BuG ReMeDEE (pronounced `bug remedy`). The project`s full name - Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments - alludes to where the researchers will look for the...