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Isopropanol (IPA) is a commodity chemical used as a solvent or raw material for polymeric products, such as plastics. Currently, IPA production depends largely on high-CO2-emission petrochemical methods that are not sustainable. Therefore, alternative low-CO2 emission methods are required. IPA bioproduction using biomass or waste gas is a promising method. Moorella thermoacetica, a thermophilic acetogenic microorganism, was genetically engineered to produce IPA. A metabolic pathway related to ac...

The canonical picture of star formation involves disk-mediated accretion, with Keplerian accretion disks and associated bipolar jets primarily observed in nearby, low-mass young stellar objects (YSOs). Recently, rotating gaseous structures and Keplerian disks have been detected around several massive (M > 8 M⊙) YSOs (MYSOs)1–4, including several disk-jet systems5–7. All the known MYSO systems are in the Milky Way, and all are embedded in their natal mat...