The Oil Age will end long before we run out of oil

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Dear Colleague, "The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil". With biotechnological production of fuels, chemicals, and materials becoming an emerging field that attracts great interest worldwide, Microbial Cell Factorieslatest article collection, Guest Edited by Yin Li, looks at the commercial success of these engineering cell factories. Engineering principles and progresses on how to design, select, construct, screen, and optimize microbial cell factories are presented, together with the perspectives on future challenges. Find three featured articles from the series below, and all articles from the collection here. Articles from the Collection REVIEW Engineering microbial cell factories for the production of plant natural products: from design principles to industrial-scale production   Xiaonan Liu Abstract   |  Full text   |  PDF REVIEW Whole-cell biocatalysts by design   Baixue Lin et al. Abstract   |  Full text   |  PDF REVIEW Gas fermentation: cellular engineering possibilities and scale up   Björn D. Heijstra et al. Abstract   |  Full text   |  PDF Journal Scope Microbial Cell Factories is an open access peer-reviewed journal that covers any topic related to the development, use and investigation of microbial cells as producers of recombinant proteins and natural products, or as catalyzers of biological transformations of industrial interest. Microbial Cell Factories is the world leading, primary research journal fully focusing on Applied Microbiology. Why Publish with Us? • We are the world leading open access journal focused on applied microbiology • Fair, high level review process • We are dedicated to serving the community Submit a Manuscript Register to receive the latest articles, straight to your inbox. Best wishes, The BioMed Central Team *The Impact Factor (IF) is just one measure used for evaluating the impact of research. For further information on the IF and alternative metrics used to measure the impact of research, please click here. Follow BioMed Central:    For further information or enquiries please contact Customer Services at:info@biomedcentral.com. BioMed Central Ltd 236 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, United Kingdom. Part of Springer Nature. Privacy Policy BMC40937