Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology modified a microbe to turning carbon dioxide into isobutanol. In nature, the wild soil bacterium turnscarbon compounds into a polymer. MIT researchers have modified it to produce isobutnaol instead.
BioNitrogen Corp. recently announced it signed a three-year, non-exclusive agreement with PRM Energy System Inc. for the construction of gasification units for its proposed urea plants. The company also signed feedstock supply and offtake agreements.
Waste Management Inc. and Renmatix announced they have entered into a joint development agreement (JDA) to explore the feasibility of converting post-consumer waste into affordable, sufficient-quality sugars for manufacturing biobased materials.
University of Georgia researchers have identified a previously uncharacterized gene that plays a major role in cell wall development of Arabidopsis plants, a discovery that promises to help turn plants into biofuel more efficiently.
California has released its 2012 Bioenergy Action Plan, which is designed to accelerate clean energy development, job creation, and protection of public health and safety. The plan was developed by state agencies and outside experts.
Algae Biomass Summit, now in its sixth year, convenes Sept. 24-27. Algae Biomass Organization expects nearly 900 leaders from all over the world to attend the event, which features more than 90 live sessions and 120 poster presentations.
Food waste generated from Starbucks stores in Hong Kong might hold the key for a new biobased chemical-from-waste production process method. The enzymatic hydrolysis step converts the bakery waste into simple sugars, which are fermented.
BASF, Cargill and Novozymes have signed an agreement to develop technologies to produce acrylic acid from renewable raw materials. Presently, acrylic acid is produced by the oxidation of propylene derived from the refining of crude oil.
Ryan Hunt could tell you about catfish farming practices, waste remediation needs at large carpet manufacturing facilities, and, why venture capitalists or angel investors need to know about both.
Murray McLaughlin, executive director of the Bioindustrial Innovation Center believes that "the ability to learn faster than the competition is often the only sustainable competitive advantage," a company might have.
AdvanceBio Systems LLC recently announced that CTBE, the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory selected AdvanceBio Systems' SuPR2G Laboratory Scale Pretreatment Reactor to conduct basic research and development work.
The near-term financial outlook of enzyme maker Codexis Inc., has been significantly altered by Royal Dutch Shell and the big oil company's announcement that it will reduce and end funding to the California-based company by October.
Vancouver, British Columbia-based Solegear Bioplastics Inc. has secured Series A financing, led by Yaletown Venture Partners and joined by a number of leading angel investors. The funding will support the expansion of Solegear's business.
Novozymes has succeeded in developing a fungus that enables production of malic acid from renewable raw materials instead of oil, and is out-licensing the technology to partners who are interested in producing and commercializing the biochemical.
A U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center grant will enable University of Missouri agroforestry researchers conduct a five-year testing program on crops suitable for marginal land, including switchgrass, sorghum and some trees.
Pioneering mass spectrometry methods developed at the U.S. DOE's Ames Laboratory are helping plant biologists get their first glimpses of never-before-seen plant tissue structures. The new method opens up new realms of study.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack kicked off the "Jobs of the Future" tour on August 6 at Ford Motor Co.'s biobased lab in Dearborn, Mich. The following day, they toured Zeeland Farm Services.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance has approved the Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012. The bill includes a variety of tax incentives that benefit the biorefining and biopower sectors, and adds algae to the definition of cellulosic biofuel.
Eight biofuel industry organizations recently announced the formation of the Biofuels Producers Coordinating Council to jointly advocate for national policy for increased energy security through domestic biofuel production.
Following the completion of a detailed feasibility study, Cobalt Technologies and Rhodia are moving forward with the development of a planned demonstration unit in Brazil. Work at the facility is scheduled to begin this month.
Scientists at the U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory have created a new enzyme that effectively "masks" the synthetic precursors of lignin. When it was expressed in plants, this enzyme substantially reduced lignin content in the cell wall.
Gevo Inc. released financial results for the second quarter of 2012 on August 7. During a call to discuss those results, the company also provided participants with an update of operations at its first commercial-scale facility
The Oregon Forest Biomass Working Group has issued a forest biomass strategy which includes four key initiatives. Made up of more than 40 stakeholders, the FBWG believes the measures will help expand the state's biomass industry.
Algae.Tec held a grand opening for its algae-to-biofuel plant in New South Wales, Australia, on Aug 2., a facility that the company said is the first of its kind in the country.
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