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Engineered microbes grow in the dark
Scientists at the University of California, Davis have engineered a strain of photosynthetic cyanobacteria to grow without the need for light. They repored their findings at the 113th General Meetin ... more
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Bacteria use hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity
Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon. Researchers at the ... more
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U.S. said well-positioned to grow pond scum as fuel source
U.S. land and water resources could support the growth of enough algae to produce up to 25 billion gallons of algae-based fuel a year, researchers say. ... more
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Scientists develop 'green' pretreatment of Miscanthus for biofuels
Two University of Illinois scientists have developed an environmentally friendly and more economical way of pretreating Miscanthus in the biofuel production process.
"We pretreat the biomass w ... more
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