Hydrogenase: Hydrogen from green algae?
It’s been quiet here on the blog lately. Four years ago, I swapped pipette and lab coat for science management and a mundane desk. For the past 1.5 years, I have been working at The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Center (ZBT), which researches and develops hydrogen technologies. Hydrogen is a potentially sustainable energy carrier, but here and now I don’t want to get into a debate about its applications. Out of a spontaneous longing for genetics, I instead looked up whether hydrogen could also be produced biotechnologically – and that’s how I came across hydrogenase and the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
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