Chew on This: Plant Peptides Help Kill Cavities and Tooth Decay
In Pennsylvania, Penn Dental Medicine researchers found a way to prevent cavities and tooth decay with a single biomaterial topical treatment using plants that...
Will the Lemonade Stand Era end in renewable fuels, sooner, later, ever?
A few weeks ago on the Digest’s tiny home island of Key Biscayne, we saw something along our one main boulevard not seen in...
The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of April 25th, 2018
The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of...
Energy Department to industry: Here’s $8M, now (puleez!) innovate down the cost of algae
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy, through the Bioenergy Technologies Office, announced the selection of three projects to receive up to $8 million,...
6 Degrees of Innovation: From the Playboy Mansion to a hot renewables tech in...
The sixth season of the reality show Kendra on Top commenced on the WE Network this past week, a spin-off from the Playboy Playmate...
Making Algae Obese: Synthetic Genomics, ExxonMobil breakthrough brings algae fuels clearer, closer
In California at the annual BIO convention, ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics announced a breakthrough in joint research into advanced biofuels involving the improvement of...
Heard on the Floor at the Algae Biomass Summit
On October 23-26 the algae industry gathered in Phoenix, AZ for the Algae Biomass Summit , its annual get together. Gone are the glory...
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In: Anellotech, Edeniq, Novvi
The old Christmas carol goes, “I saw three ships come sailing in,” and those perched on a widow’s walk this morning might have espied...
Butamax’s back on the radar and Kansas is the place
BP and DuPont’s JV Butamax, acquires Nesika Energy ethanol plant, heads for commercial-scale biobutanol
In Delaware, the BP/DuPont joint venture Butamax has acquired the 10...
After Dieselgate, renewables more critical to diesel’s future than ever: survey
Americans respond more to environmental messages on renewable diesel fuels than energy security or economic impact, according to a survey undertaken by the Diesel...