Tag: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

Ginkgo Automation to deploy flexible laboratory automation system for biofuels research

Ginkgo Automation to deploy flexible laboratory automation system for biofuels research

January 26, 2025 |

In Massachusetts, Ginkgo Bioworks announced that Ginkgo Automation will design and deploy a flexible, anaerobic-enabled laboratory automation system for the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), a U.S. Department of Energy-funded Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.  The firm said that this new system is designed to support the diverse needs of multiple […]

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Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center  researchers produce engineered strains of valuable carotenoids

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center  researchers produce engineered strains of valuable carotenoids

June 18, 2024 |

In Wisconsin, scientists with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center showed that a strain of Novosphingobium aromaticivorans naturally produces the carotenoid nostoxanthin. By deleting or adding selected genes, they engineered strains that produced the valuable carotenoids beta-carotene, lycopene, zeaxanthin, and astaxanthin. They showed that these engineered strains produced carotenoids at comparable levels when grown either in laboratory […]

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