Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals: The Twenty-eighth Symposium, Presented As Volumes 137-140 of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (ABAB Symposium)
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The biobutanol panel at the 2009 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy had three dynamic speakers from the biobutanol industry: Pat Gruber, CEO of Gevo, Inc.; Jay Kouba, CEO of Tetravitae Bioscience and Rick Wilson, CEO of Cobalt Technologies. Besides the individual company presentations the conversation concentrated on technology, risk, barriers and financing [...]
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The Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy hosted a webinar to discuss U.S. and Canadian government efforts to support commercial development of algae for biofuels, chemicals, pharmaceutical and food ingredients, and the long list of applications being considered. Valerie Reed of the U.S. Department of Energy, noted that the U.S. Economic Recovery Act provided [...]
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BIO will host three webinars from the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy in Honolulu, featuring companies, researchers, and policy makers at the forefront of efforts to commercialize algae applications, cellulosic biofuels, and renewable chemicals. 1.International Developments in Algae Commercialization Valerie Reed, U.S. Department of Energy; Patrick McGinn, Institute of...
Researchers at UAB in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, have discovered the structure of the PPC descarboxilase (PPCDC) enzyme present in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a very important organism in biotechnology and an excellent model for biological research. Scientists have verified that its structure differs substantially from that found in humans, which in addition...
Proximagen Neuroscience has signed an agreement with Biovitrum to acquire Biovitrum's wholly owned subsidiary Cambridge Biotechnology, along with certain drug development programmes.
In what it calls a first-of-its-kind study, the nation's leading biotechnology trade group this week put a dollar figure on the value of university-driven research, asserting that economic output grew $187 billion from 1996-2007 through university technology license agreements alone.
But he speaks out against the religion, so no… Posted in Environmentalism Tagged: Biotechnology, Cities, Genetically Modified Crops, Nuclear Energy, Science, Technology, Urbanization
The United Kingdom's deepest diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Autosub6000, has been put through its paces during an extremely successful engineering trials cruise on the RRS Discovery, Sept. 27 to Oct. 17, 2009.
Researchers have identified wheat and barley lines resistant to crown rot -- a disease that costs Australian wheat and barley farmers $79 million in lost yield every year.
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Abodes - Book alert: What lies beneath Europa's icy crust? Richard Greenberg has been pondering this question for 30-odd years. His new book, "Unmasking Europa" , describes his view that Europa's hidden ocean and the life forms it may support...
The vast chemical diversity of the oceans, revealed in full by recent screening molecular tools [1], opens new, exciting scenarios for research at the interface between science and business. Since much of sea life, particularly in deep waters, is yet untapped [2], Marine Biotechnology (or “Blue Biotechnology ”) is a fast emerging sector, focused on exploiting ocean diversity for industrial / medical
Do-Coop Technologies Ltd. is a private company based in Israel . Its primal goal is to develop and commercialize novel water-based materials using Nanotechnology for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Do-Coop has developed a patented Nanotechnology to modify the properties of water, using nanoparticles, enabling the first ever introduction of water-based biomaterials. Do-Coop...
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