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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Brazil experienced a biofuel boom in March 2007, topping out at second in world output behind the USA. The fermentation of sugars produced motor fuel…
Using a fermentation process used in World War I to make cordite for bullets and artillery shells, researchers at the Berkeley Lab effectively combined an…
In an effort to replicate the cellulose-destroying capabilities of anaerobic fungi in yeast and create a potentially cost-effective single-organism process for manufacturing cellulosic biofuels, MIT…
By removing a few genes, inserting a gene from another organism and tinkering with the expression of other genes, MIT scientists have discovered a way…
Using bacteria to breakdown and ferment agricultural waste into ethanol, MSU microbiologists have developed bioelectrochemical systems known as microbial electrolysis cells, which use a second…
A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab has discovered the mechanism behind the RNA-guided cleavage of double-stranded DNA that is central to the bacterial…
By feeding algae more carbon, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory increased the microbes’ overall metabolism, resulting in increased oil production as the organisms continued…
A joint team of scientists have identified and determined how a tropical rainforest microbe is able to endure high concentrations of an ionic liquid used…
As advancements in biofuels continue, researchers from the Berkeley Lab are looking into new ways of creating biofuels that don’t rely on photosynthesis. Focusing on…
In an effort to create an alternative way to produce aviation fuels, NASA is exploring the Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae method for biofuel….
By introducing the dynamic sensor-regulator system into a strain of E. coli bacteria engineered at JBEI to produce diesel fuel directly from glucose, researchers developed…
Technology developed by Bio Architecture Lab, primarily an engineered microbe that can metabolize alginate, may make seaweed an economical feedstock for the production of biofuel. Since…