Algae Genome Is Sequenced But Many Mysteries Abound
In Texas, researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Research have sequenced the genome for the biofuel microalga Botryococcus brauniii, which is colony-forming and produces large...
USDA Offers $9.6 Million in Biomaterials and Biobased Products Funding
In Washington, DC, there is a new $9.6 million in available funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture....
Romanian Government Proposing Plastic Bag Biomaterial Labeling Law
In Romania, legislators from the various political parties are using as a basis a European Union Directive from 2015 to reduce the use of...
Lenzing Group Gets USDA’s Biobased Product Label for Biochemicals
In Austria, the Lenzing Group, a producer of botanic cellulose fibers for the textile and nonwovens industries, received a biobased certificate, or Biobased Product...
Store Enso Constructing New Warehouse to Help Biomass Transportation and Logistics
In Finland, Stora Enso, a pulp and paper biomass producer, is building a 5,950 square meter (64,000 square foot) warehouse facility at the Port...
State of California Energy Commission Awards SEaB Energy Food Waste to Energy Project
In the United Kingdom, SEaB Energy won a contract from the State of California Energy Commission to provide its waste to energy system, called...
NIH Gives $6.25 Million for 3D Bioprinting Collaboration at New Center for Engineering Complex...
In Maryland, the National Institutes of Health gave $6.25 million for the new Texas-based Center for Engineering Complex Tissues. CECT is a collaborative effort...
Two Molecules Offer Insight for Estrogen Driven Breast Cancer Treatment
In Florida, California, and Illinois, researchers from several universities have found that two molecules in the immune system are crucial to drug resistance in...
New Nanotechnology from Northeastern University to Help Audax Medical Clients
In Massachusetts, Audax Medical, Inc. has a worldwide license from Northeastern University for new nanotechnology of a self-assembling arginine-rich peptide to add to its...
Trapping Autoimmune T Cells Helps Researchers Better Understand Diabetes and Other Autoimmune Diseases
In Massachusetts, researchers from Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have found...