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by ruth on March 11, 2010
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has released a white paper on the growth and jobs potential of green chemicals and briefed Congressional staff on the commercial status of industrial biot...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
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by ruth on February 27, 2010
The use of antibiotics in animal feed is strictly regulated as it has been linked to the emergence of antibiotic resistant microorganisms. This prohibition has been reported, however, to raise product...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
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by ruth on February 21, 2010
Moringa oleifera is a vegetable crop cultivated in many Africa, Central and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and South East Asia. In a new study, it appears that this plant is not only useful a...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on August 25, 2009
Watermelons that do not make it to the market may be a valuable source of alternative energy. A study has shown that the juice of reject watermelons can be fermented efficiently into biofuel.
Wayne Fi...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on August 19, 2009
Researchers have doubled the production of butanol, a possible alternative to gasoline, by developing a mutant strain of the bacterium Clostridium beijerinckii in a bioreactor containing bundles of po...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on July 25, 2009
According to US research paper "Cow Power: The Energy and Emissions Benefits of Converting Manure to Biogas" published in the Institute of Physics' Environmental Research Letters, livest...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on May 10, 2009
Researchers have discovered increasing populations of bacteria with multiple resistance to antibiotics in waste water treatment plants. They found the so-called superbugs-bacteria resistant to multipl...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on April 9, 2009
German researchers have developed a varnish alternative in which the majority of petrochemical components have been substituted by vegetable oils and sugars. It has identical properties to the convent...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on April 8, 2009
Researchers have developed a method of converting banana crop waste into briquettes as a source of fuel.
First, the banana skins and leaves are mashed to a pulp in a hand-operated domestic meat mince...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
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by ruth on March 31, 2009
Researchers have developed microbial electrolysis cells using Archaea species that could use the current to convert carbon dioxide and water to methane without any organic material, bacteria or hydrog...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on March 13, 2009
Scientists have discovered that the addition of dilute acetic acid or vinegar can help jumpstart bioremediation of chromium-contaminated industrial wastewater.
"Our treatment method reconverts t...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on January 22, 2009
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Primafuel, Inc., a California-based company that develops renewable fuels, have entered a multi-year, multi-million dollar technology-licensing and develop...
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by ruth on November 25, 2008
Researchers have identified a fungus found in the Patagonia forest that produces a new type of diesel fuel. Tests indicated that the fungus Gliocladium roseum, which grows on the branches of a tree ca...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on November 17, 2008
Researchers are exploring the potential of olive stones, otherwise a waste product of the olive processing industry, as a substrate for bioethanol production. The stones are rich in polysaccharides (c...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on October 21, 2008
Algerian researchers explored the use of orange peel in the removal of acidic dyes from industrial effluent from manufacturers of dyes, paper printers, textile dyers, color photography and petroleum p...
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by ruth on September 5, 2008
In a report published in HortScience, researchers show the potential of constructed wetlands as a simple, low-technology method for treating agricultural, industrial, and municipal wastewater. They in...
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by ruth on August 28, 2008
In small scale trials, sweet potatoes grown in Maryland and Alabama has been shown to yield two to three times as much carbohydrate for fuel ethanol production as field corn grown in the same areas. i...
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by ruth on July 14, 2008
The DOE's Joint Genome Institute is supporting the genomic sequencing of duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) as one of its priority projects for 2009 directed toward new biomass and bioenergy programs....
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on June 3, 2008
The ASM Press has released Bioenergy, a new book focusing on microorganisms as a sustainable and cost-effective source of alternative energy.
In 31 detailed chapters, Bioenergy provides thorough expla...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on May 10, 2008
Scientists from Japan and China are exploring the use of the brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida, known as wakame as a means to extract organic and inorganic pollutants in seawater. After culturing wak...
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by ruth on May 7, 2008
In a study published in Nature Biotechnology, scientists discover that based on the genome analysis of Tricoderma reesei, the fungus has the genes required to break down plant cell walls, to simple su...
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by ruth on April 24, 2008
Scientists have engineered a cyanobacteria to produce sugars which may be used as raw material for ethanol and designer fuels production.
Nobles made the new cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green al...
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by ruth on April 11, 2008
To facilitate the conversion of cellulose from corn into ethanol, scientists have created a new genetically modified variety of corn, called Spartan Corn III, which bears a gene from a microbe natural...
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by ruth on February 29, 2008
Researchers have demonstrated that a water treatment system using microorganisms called membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) is effective in eliminating the common contaminant chlorinated solvent trichloro...
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by ruth on January 22, 2008
The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has released a preliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy research...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on November 28, 2007
In the latest issue of the International Journal of Global Energy Issues, researchers report of an experimental device that use sunlight to convert glucose into hydrogen to power the cell, which produ...
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by ruth on October 17, 2007
University of Illinois researchers have found out that tropical maize, when grown in the US midwest, may be a far superior crop for biofuel production in comparison to corn.
Early research results ...
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by ruth on October 11, 2007
A study funded by the National Science Foundation suggests that Bt corn- a genetically-modified corn engineered to express a bacterial toxin which is poisonous to corn borers - may damage the ecology ...
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by ruth on September 28, 2007
Researchers have patented a process that uses eggshells to absorb carbon dioxide in a durign hydrogen fuel production, including a unique method for peeling the collagen-containing membrane from the i...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
by ruth on September 18, 2007
The University of New Hampshire has launched EcoLine, a first of a kind landfill gas project that will pipe enriched and purified gas from Waste Management's landfill in Rochester to the Durham ca...
