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One of the best attended and most lively breakouts at this year's World Congress had nothing to do with switchgrass, algae, synthetic biology, or any of the other hot topics trumpeted in advance of the meeting. Tuesday's session, "Commercial Production of Succinic Acid", snuck up on me, bursting Track 3's session room at the seams.

Several leading advanced biofuel companies discuss the state of their technology development, their use of synthetic biology, and their plans for bringing products to market.

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When I went into the World Congress breakout session today on "A Global Perspective on Synthetic Biology" I thought I would get a mixed bag of presentations that would fall both within my communications perspective and those that would be more of a scientist-to-scientist talk. Indeed that was what I got, but as we recently developed our own project on Synthetic Biology I was determined to take it all in and squeeze out what I could.