The term CRISPR-Cas9 may not mean anything to you yet, but CRISPR will re-shape everything around including possibly the color of your children’s eyes, so listen up. Time to have a chat about Inscripta, which generated a colossal amount of publicity last week for releasing one of its own, unique CRISPR enzymes, which will be […]
For over 20 years, Fluid-Quip has been engineering and manufacturing separation equipment for corn wet milling and pulp and paper applications. Fluid-Quip has more recently leveraged wet milling knowledge to develop enhancements for dry-grind ethanol plants. Jeff Robert gave this illuminating overview on Fluid Quip’s Clean Sugars Technology at ABLC Next in San Francisco.
By Dale Earls, Scientist, Novozymes Special to The Digest It turns out that too much of a good thing can actually be a bad thing—even when it comes to ethanol. At least in terms of the fermentation process. In commercial yeasts available today, as fermentation progresses and the concentration of ethanol rises, yeast cells are […]
In Washington, the USDA’s new America’s Diverse Family Farms – 2017 Edition finds that 99 percent of U.S. farms are family farms, and they accounted for 90 percent of farm production in 2016. Farming is still overwhelmingly comprised of family businesses, said USDA. More than a third of farms have multiple operators, and larger farms are more […]
The DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory is the only federal laboratory dedicated to the research, development, commercialization, and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. NREL — home to the National Bioenergy Center — advances the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, and renewable power technologies and provides the knowledge to integrate […]
This week we’ve received news from three companies that have struck out in search of new markets for their fundamental processes, and new applications for biotechnology in some ancient and ossified markets such as jet fuel, C3 chemicals and gasoline. The News from Global Bioenergies In France, Global Bioenergies has started the start of the […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (establishes partnerships with key public and private stakeholders to develop technologies for producing cost-competitive advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources, including cellulosic biomass, algae, and wet waste (e.g., biosolids). BETO works with a broad spectrum of government, industrial, academic, agricultural, and nonprofit partners across the United States […]
Good news arrives from Minnesota that Syngenta has partnered with Green Plains to expand its use of Enogen corn enzyme technology across GPRE’s 1.5 billion gallon production platform. The Enogen backstory Enogen corn enzyme technology is an in-seed innovation available exclusively from Syngenta and features the first biotech corn output trait designed specifically to enhance […]
Reverdia is a joint venture between Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, and Roquette Frères, the global starch and starch-derivatives company. Reverdia is dedicated to be the global leader in the market for sustainable succinic acid, focusing on market development by establishing partnerships with direct and indirect customers, building on customer […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $100 million in funding for new projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA‑E) latest OPEN funding opportunity. OPEN will support America’s top innovators through dozens of early-stage research and development projects as they build technologies to transform the nation’s energy system. “The Department […]
