NPR’s Science Friday to air biofuel research update

NPR’s Science Friday will air an update on biofuels research tomorrow (April 11), with calls accepted from 2-4 EDT. In this week’s segment, George Huber, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, reports on green gasoline, highlighted earlier this week in Biofuels Digest. Also, Miriam Sticklen of Michigan State University will highlight work on enzymes from cattle used for cellulosic ethanol and Percival Zhang of Virginia Tech will relate developments in producing hydrogen gas from biomass.

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