Like the beginning of every great science fiction movie, experts claim that they've discovered a cure for our fuel-dependency woes that only requires an army of geneticallymodifiedbacteria... that eat wheat straw and excrete crude oil.
Among the leaves and sticks and stones, the Stanford University chemical engineer is pioneering a radical method for producing new medicines to treat infections, cancer and other scourges--with the help of tiny, geneticallymodified soil bacteria.