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Tulane has applied for a copyright for a technique to produce the biofuel butanol as of organic material, a procedure urbanized by connect professor David Mullin, right, postdoctoral fellow Harshad Velankar, center, and undergraduate scholar Hailee Rask. Credit: Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano Heres one way so as to old-fashioned newsprint beats the Internet. Tulane University group contain exposed a novel bacterial strain, dubbed œTU-103, so as to can use document to produce butanol, a biofuel so as to can serve as a alternate for gasoline. They are at present experimenting by means of old editions of the Times Picayune, New Orleans venerable each day newspaper, by means of huge success. œCellulose is establish in all green plants, and is the the majority plentiful organic fabric on earth, and converting it eager on butanol is the dream of many, supposed Harshad Velankar, a postdoctoral fellow in David Mullins lab in Tulanes Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. œIn the United States alone, at smallest amount 323 million   More †'