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The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 3/9/15: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 3/9/15: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

March 8, 2015 |

The Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]

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Timely Implementation of Farm Bill Programs Is Vital for the Advanced Biofuels and Renewable Chemicals Industry

Timely Implementation of Farm Bill Programs Is Vital for the Advanced Biofuels and Renewable Chemicals Industry

March 8, 2015 |

By Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, Industrial and Environmental, Biotechnology Industry Organization  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced funding for the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) as well as published the final rule for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). BIO and the industrial biotech sector worked hard to ensure that these and other […]

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75 people worth knowing in the advanced bioeconomy

75 people worth knowing in the advanced bioeconomy

March 5, 2015 |

Next week in Washington DC, the advanced bioeconomy industry gathers for ABLC 2015, the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference. With the 75 leaders we’ve selected for plenary presentations, you might ask, why them, why are these topics vital, why now? Policy people to know at the present time Next week, the heads of the major advanced […]

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Algae strategies for a healthy “Less sugar, more protein” world

Algae strategies for a healthy “Less sugar, more protein” world

March 4, 2015 |

Yep, it’s time to “lay off the sugar” and get more proteins and veggies in your diet. But how do you handle a surging population, and rising demand for fish. Turns out our one-celled friends, the algae, may come to the rescue. Here’s the why and how. If you’ve been following the newsflow on sugar […]

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Matrix breaks through on genetic methods for modifying spirulina: new platform for proteins, pigments

Matrix breaks through on genetic methods for modifying spirulina: new platform for proteins, pigments

March 4, 2015 |

Milestone reached on protein, phycocyanin in spirulina — opens up new opportunities for algae, cyanobacteria. In Washington, we have big news this week that Matrix Genetics announced a technology breakthrough that allows for rapid and efficient production of pigments and proteins in Spirulina, a species of cyanobacteria. Matrix is the first to invent rapid and efficient genetic […]

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Beta Renewables CEO Guido Ghisolfi dies in apparent suicide

Beta Renewables CEO Guido Ghisolfi dies in apparent suicide

March 3, 2015 |

The charismatic Beta Renewables CEO is gone, builder of the world’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant. Guido Ghisolfi, 58, the CEO of Beta Renewables, is dead. News reports from Italy indicate a suicide, after the charismatic business leader was found in his dark-color, late model Lexus, on a road side near Carbona Scrivia, less than three […]

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50 Fortune Cookies: more proverbs, aphorisms and caveats for the bioeconomy, part 5

50 Fortune Cookies: more proverbs, aphorisms and caveats for the bioeconomy, part 5

March 3, 2015 |

Time for more Fortune Cookies – aphorisms and entertainments that came to mind, here in Digestville, as we reported on the fast-growing advanced bioeconomy. The 2011 collection is here. The 2012 collection is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#1-10) is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#11-20) is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#21-30) is here. […]

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50 Fortune Cookies: more proverbs, aphorisms and caveats for the bioeconomy, part 4

50 Fortune Cookies: more proverbs, aphorisms and caveats for the bioeconomy, part 4

March 3, 2015 |

Time for more Fortune Cookies – aphorisms and entertainments that came to mind, here in Digestville, as we reported on the fast-growing advanced bioeconomy. The 2011 collection is here. The 2012 collection is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#1-10) is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#11-20) is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#21-30) is here. […]

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50 Fortune Cookies: more proverbs, aphorisms and caveats for the bioeconomy, part 3

50 Fortune Cookies: more proverbs, aphorisms and caveats for the bioeconomy, part 3

March 3, 2015 |

Time for more Fortune Cookies – aphorisms and entertainments that came to mind, here in Digestville, as we reported on the fast-growing advanced bioeconomy. The 2011 collection is here. The 2012 collection is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#1-10) is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#11-20) is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#31-40) is here. […]

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50 Fortune Cookies: more proverbs, aphorisms and caveats for the bioeconomy, part 2

50 Fortune Cookies: more proverbs, aphorisms and caveats for the bioeconomy, part 2

March 3, 2015 |

Time for more Fortune Cookies – aphorisms and entertainments that came to mind, here in Digestville, as we reported on the fast-growing advanced bioeconomy. The 2011 collection is here. The 2012 collection is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#1-10) is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#21-30) is here. This years’ (2015) collection (#31-40) is here. […]

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