Reaping and Sewing From Corn

"Earlier this year DuPont announced a new polymer called Sorona that is used to make clothing such as swimsuits, negligees, carpets and upholstery. Sorona products are based on petroleum, but DuPont has joined with Genencor to engineer a microorganism to ferment sugars from corn and corn biomass that would replace the petroleum."
And you thought corn was just for dinner.

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