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Wood formation model to fuel progress in bioenergy, paper, new applications
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
The model, built on more than three decades of research led by Vincent Chiang of the Forest Biotechnology Group at North Carolina State University, will speed t...
Research shows how genetics can contribute for advances in 2G ethanol production
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
Understanding the genetic mechanisms that regulate the control and production of hydrolytic enzymes by microorganisms is considered fundamental to improving the...
Algae-forestry, bioenergy mix could help make CO2 vanish from thin air
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
"Algae may be the key to unlocking an important negative-emissions technology to combat climate change," said Charles Greene, Cornell professor of Earth and Atm...
Removing the brakes on plant oil production
Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)
"It's normal for plant cells to down-regulate oil production when we feed them excess fatty acids, and this study confirms our hypothesis about how they do that...
NUS engineers pioneer greener and cheaper technique for biofuel production
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
A research team led by Associate Professor He Jianzhong from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NUS Faculty of Engineering first discovere...
Notre Dame researchers developing renewable energy approach for producing ammonia
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
The new process, published in Nature Catalysis, utilizes a plasma - an ionized gas - in combination with non-noble metal catalysts to generate ammonia at much m...
New insights into how cellulose is built could indicate how to break it
Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at Penn State have identified the major steps in the process as well as the tools used by plant cells to create cellulose, including proteins that t...
Sewage sludge leads to biofuels breakthrough
Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)
Results from a study led by Harry Beller , Berkeley Lab senior scientist and scientific lead at JBEI, were published Monday in the journal Nature Chemical Biolo...
Wood pellets: Renewable, but not carbon neutral
Mar 26, 2018 (SPX)
In the race to meet clean energy standards, biomass energy is often touted as carbon neutral. To satisfy European Union (EU) demand, forests in the United State...
Insects could help us find new yeasts for big business
Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)
The strategy, which focuses on the relationships between yeasts and insect species, is laid out in a paper published March 21 in the Proceedings of the Royal So...
Cow and elephant dung can be turned into paper, study shows
Mar 21, 2018 (UPI)
Traditional paper production methods involve the chemical and mechanical breakdown of raw wood into pulp that can be turned into paper products, which can be an...
Modified biomaterials self-assemble on temperature cues
Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)
The research appears online on March 19 in Nature Chemistry. Biomaterials have broad applications across the fields of tissue engineering, regenerative medicine...
Startup scales up CNT membranes to make carbon-zero fuels for less than fossil fuels
Mar 12, 2018 (SPX)
Tests confirming that Mattershift's large-scale CNT membranes match the characteristics and performance of small prototype CNT membranes previously reported on ...
Manure could heat your home
Mar 12, 2018 (SPX)
That would eliminate particularly harmful gases released by naturally decomposing manure when it is spread on farm fields as fertilizer and partially replace fo...
Malaysia to press EU on planned palm oil ban in biofuels
Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)
The European Parliament earlier this year voted in favour of a draft law on renewable energy that calls for the use of palm oil in biofuels to be banned from 20...
How biofuels from plant fibers could combat global warming
Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)
But corn is problematic as a biofuel source material. It's resource-intensive to grow, creates many environmental impacts, and is more useful as food. A study f...
New tool tells bioengineers when to build microbial teams
Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)
The research was published online the week of February 19, 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Every cell in the world is constantly ab...
Pausing evolution makes bioproduction of chemicals affordable and efficient
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
"One central issue is that bioproduction in large-scale fermenters is limited by toxicities and stresses that allow evolution to reduce or eliminate production ...
Digestive ability of ancient insects could boost biofuel development
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
Published in Nature Communications, the research reveals that the ability of some insects to efficiently digest cellulose could be exploited for industrial proc...
Evolution plays many tricks against large-scale bioproduction
Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)
Bioengineers have long debated whether it was realistic for evolution to eliminate production of engineered production cells during the relatively short time co...
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