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UM Scientists Find Key to Low-Cost Ethanol in Chesapeake Bay.

The secret to making an inexpensive substitute to gasoline may come from a bacterium found eating marsh grass in the Chesapeake Bay. A chance discovery not detected in the Bay since, the bacterium, called Saccharophagus degradans, can create a mixture of enzymes --- through a patent-pending system developed by College of Chemical and Life Sciences Professors Steve Hutcheson and Ron Weiner --- that break down almost any source of biomass, or plant life, into sugars, which are then converted into ethanol and other biofuels. Called Ethazyme, the biomass-degrading enzyme mixture is licensed exclusively to University of Maryland spin-off Zymetis, Inc. (College Park, MD).

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