Sesame Crop Yields Stable in Drought Conditions
Texas has a long history of growing cotton. It’s a resilient crop, able to withstand big swings in temperature fairly well. However, growing cotton in…
Biofuel
Published Study Shows Algae Using Raw Plants as a Carbon Energy Source
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions provided today the first published report of algae using raw plants as a carbon energy source….
Research Shows Advanced Biofuels Can Be Produced Extremely Efficiently
A chance to switch to renewable sources for heating, electricity and fuel, while also providing new opportunities for several industries to produce large numbers of…
Engineers Discover Greener and Cheaper Technique for Biofuel
Natural bacterium isolated from mushroom crop residue converts plant-based material to butanol directly. A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently…
Fungal Enzymes Could Potential Convert Wood Biomass Into Biofuels
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the University of York, has discovered a set of enzymes found in fungi that are capable of…
MIT Engineers Program Yeast to Convert Plant Sugars Into Oils
By modifying the metabolic pathways of yeast, chemical engineers from MIT are able to convert plant sugars into oils. MIT engineers have genetically reprogrammed a…
Different Environment Helps Boost Biofuel Production
By simply altering the composition of the medium in which the yeast are grown, engineers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT were…
Researchers Develop “Bionic Liquids,” Pave the Way for Closed Loop Biofuel Refineries
Researchers have developed “bionic liquids” from lignin and hemicellulose, two by-products of biofuel production from biorefineries, paving the way closed loop biofuel refineries. While the…
Scientists Create a Copper-Based Catalyst that Produces Large Quantities of Ethanol
A team of scientists from Stanford University has created a copper-based catalyst that produces large quantities of ethanol from carbon monoxide gas at room temperature….
Newly Discovered Catalyst Could Lead to the Clean Production of Methanol
An international team of scientists has created a new nickel-gallium catalyst that could be used to convert hydrogen and carbon dioxide emissions into methanol. A…
Engineers Convert Yeast Cells into Biofuel
Using genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary table sugar, engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering developed a new biofuel. Austin, Texas — Researchers at…
Scripps Researchers Develop New Method for Enhancing Biofuel Production
By metabolically engineering a “knock-down” of fat-reducing enzymes called lipases, UC San Diego researchers have developed a method for greatly enhancing biofuel production in tiny…
New Metabolic Pathway More Efficiently Converts Sugars into Biofuels
UCLA scientists have developed a new synthetic glycolytic pathway that converts all six glucose carbon atoms into three molecules of acetyl-CoA without losing any as…
Engineered E. coli Produces Key Precursors of High-Octane Biofuels
A new study from scientists at the Wyss Institute details engineered bacteria that can make key precursors of high-octane biofuels. New lines of engineered bacteria…
New Approach Improves Biomass-to-Fuel Process
A newly published study describes a new approach to converting non-food based biomass into fuels, allowing researchers to generate a range of alkanes from a…
New PALM-Based Technique Will Help Reduce Biofuel Production Costs
Using an ultrahigh-precision visible light microscopy technique called PALM, scientists at the Berkeley Lab have discovered a way to boost the yields of sugars for…
Scientists Engineer Plants to Boost Sugar Yields for Biofuels
A new study details how researchers genetically manipulated secondary cell walls in plants to reduce the production of lignin while increasing the yield of sugars…
Discovery May Lead to the Creation of Biofuel from CO2 in the Atmosphere
Scientists at the University of Georgia have discovered a way to transform carbon dioxide trapped in the atmosphere into useful industrial products, possibly allowing scientists…