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Microbial production of biofuel utilizes meticulously engineered microorganisms to produce biofuels that can be applied in real life. Microbial biofuel reduces the production cost of fuel, since all the infrastructure for the production of energy is not required, and is therefore considered a potential source of renewable energy. While some biofuels can be produced from the innate chemical pathways of some microorganisms, most must be produced with the help of genetic engineering. Already, scientists have genetically modified yeast and Escherichia coli to produce biofuels and increase their productivity. Current technology of bioengineering and synthetic biology has enabled the production of alcoholderived, isoprenoid-derived, fatty-acid-derived, and polyketide-derived fuels; the challenge of microbial production of biofuels research lies on increasing its yield, expanding the source of feedstock, and searching for new methods to produce them. In this paper, current progress on microbial production of biofuel and the production method of the greatest efficiency will be examined by referring to previous research papers.