On March 13, 2015, the National Academies issued Industrialization Of Biology: A Roadmap To Accelerate The Advanced Manufacturing Of Chemicals, a 143-page report prepared in response to a request from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to “develop a roadmap of necessary advances in basic science and engineering capabilities, including knowledge, tools and skills” to accelerate the advanced manufacturing of chemicals using biological systems....
