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CO through photosynthesis says Braden Tierney a data scientist focusing on microbiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Two Frontiers Project which led the research. The project was funded by US biotechnology company Seed Health which employs Tierney as a consultant. Together with a team of researchers from Harvard and Cornell universities in the of Palermo in Sicily and with help from the.

Vulcano community Tierney isolated a microbe that converted CO into biomass faster than other known cyanobacteria. A study outlining the results will be published later this year. Scientists Mobile App Development Service discovered a type of cyanobacteria that eats CO astonishingly quickly off the coast of a volcanic island near Sicily Credit Getty Images Scientists discovered a type of cyanobacteria that eats CO astonishingly quickly off the coast of a volcanic island near Sicily Credit.



Getty Images Cyanobacteria are a type of bacteria that use photosynthesis to obtain energy capturing carbon in the process and the new strain is one of the fastest growing cyanobacteria ever reported says Tierney. He describes cyanobacteria as natures little alchemists as they absorb large amounts of CO and can convert it into useful resources such as fuels or biodegradable plastics.