by Matt Soberg (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Virginia Tech and USDA researchers developed strategy that reduces barley toxins sometimes present in
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Back TO HOMELeaf Energy Adds Third Cellulosic Energy Technology to Portfolio with Exclusive Agreement
by Angela Kean (Proactive Investors Australia) Leaf Energy (ASX: LER) has signed worldwide exclusive licence agreement with Texas A &
November 28, 2011 Read Full Article
UGA Creates “Super Yeast” to Aid Ethanol Production
(Atlanta Business Chronicle) The University of Georgia researchers created a “super strain” of yeast that ferments ethanol from pretreated pine
November 18, 2011 Read Full Article
'Cyborg' Yeast Genes Run by Computer
by Jason Palmer (BBC News) Scientists have succeeded in forming a "feedback loop" between a computer and a common yeast
November 07, 2011 Read Full Article
The SuperFriends and Their Planet-Saving Microbial Biofuel Powers
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In the world at large, they are generally called pests. We call them ‘magic bugs’.
November 04, 2011 Read Full Article
Toyota Develops New Yeast For Cellulosic Ethanol Production
(Biofuels Journal) Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) held an event Oct. 4 at its Toyota Biotechnology and Afforestation Laboratory in Aichi prefecture to
October 04, 2011 Read Full Article
Joint BioEnergy Institute Scientists Identify New Microbe-Produced Advanced Biofuel as an Alternative to Diesel Fuel
by Lynn Yarris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Researchers with the U.S Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified
September 30, 2011 Read Full Article
Gevo Awarded Contract to Supply Jet Fuel to U.S. Air Force
(BusinessWire/Yahoo!Finance) Air Force Purchase is for Jet Engine Testing and Feasibility Flight Demonstration Gevo, Inc., a leading renewable chemicals and advanced
September 30, 2011 Read Full Article
Biorefinery Yeast Research Shows Promise
by (Western Farm Press/US Department of Agriculture) Cornstalks, wheat straw, and other rough, fibrous, harvest-time leftovers may soon be less expensive
September 22, 2011 Read Full Article
Mascoma’s IPO: The 10-Minute Version
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Intrigued by cellulosic ethanol and a new product called MGT, in Mascoma’s IPO? ...Mascoma Corporation announced
September 20, 2011 Read Full Article
“Synthetic” Chromosome Permits Rapid, On-Demand “Evolution” of Yeast
(NewsWise/Johns Hopkins University) Johns Hopkins researchers create man-made system with built-in diversity generator In the quest to understand genomes—how they’re built,
September 19, 2011 Read Full Article
Trillium Awarded SBIR Grant from National Science Foundation
(Trillium FiberFuels/Ethanol Producer Magazine) Trillium FiberFuels Inc. has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant to further its work
September 06, 2011 Read Full Article
Discovery Turns Seaweed Into Biofuel in Half the Time
(University of Illinois/Science Daily) University of Illinois scientists have engineered a new strain of yeast that converts seaweed into biofuel
August 31, 2011 Read Full Article
Novel Gene Increases Yeast's Appetite for Plant Sugars
(Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center) For thousands of years, bakers and brewers have relied on yeast to convert sugar into
August 01, 2011 Read Full Article
Looking Beyond the Fossil Age: Royal DSM Aims to Be in the Thick of the Race for Next Generation of Biofuels and Health-Care Materials
by William Lyons and Sten Stovall (Wall Street Journal) ..."We don't realize it, but we are living in the fossil
August 01, 2011 Read Full Article
Industrial Yeast Strain Engineered to Ferment Ethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass
by Nikolai Khramtsov, Luise McDade, Alexander Amerik, Esther Yu, Kunjan Divatia, Alexander Tikhonov, Michael Minto, Georges Kabongo-Mubalamate, Zdenek Markovic, Marie
July 01, 2011 Read Full Article
Lallemand Announces New Ethanol Yeast at FEW
by Lallemand Ethanol Technology (Ethanol Producer Magazine) ...The yet-to-be-named yeast is the first product to be patented (pending) and commercialized
June 30, 2011 Read Full Article
DSM Strengthens Yeast Technology Leadership for 2G Biofuels
(DSM) Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, today announces that it has reached an agreement to
June 29, 2011 Read Full Article
EdeniQ Licenses Yeast Technology From USDA
(PR NewsWire/The Street) EdeniQ, Inc., a California-based clean technology company serving the global biofuels industry, announced today that it has licensed
June 14, 2011 Read Full Article
Consolidated Bioprocessing: A Revolution in Biofuels Development
by Jeremy Fordham (Green-Trust.org) ...Microorganisms are incredibly abundant and diverse, especially in their metabolic functionality. Consolidated bioprocessing takes advantage of
June 03, 2011 Read Full Article
Verdezyne Closes New Financing Round: BP, DSM, OVP Venture Partners and Monitor Ventures Participate in Round
(Verdezyne/BusinessWire) Verdezyne, Inc., an industrial biotechnology company developing cost-effective processes for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals, today announced it
May 10, 2011 Read Full Article
Logos and EdeniQ Receive Department of Energy Funding for Corn-to-Cellulosic Pilot Biorefinery
(Logos Technologies) DOE commits full $20.5 million to retrofit and build pilot plant in Visalia, CA Logos Technologies®, Inc. and EdeniQ,
May 06, 2011 Read Full Article
Keasling Featured in NOVA’s ‘Power Surge’ Program
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/PBS) Can emerging technology defeat global warming? The United States has invested tens of billions of dollars
May 02, 2011 Read Full Article
Amyris's First Commercial Production Facility Complete and Operational
(Amyris) Amyris, Inc., announced the completion of the first industrial-scale facility for the production of Biofene™, Amyris’s renewable farnesene. The production
April 29, 2011 Read Full Article
Enzymes from Garden Compost Could Favour Bioethanol Production
(Lund University) The researcher in question is Nadia Skorupa Parachin and the secret of her technique is enzymes that she
March 11, 2011 Read Full Article
TU Delft Licenses Sustainable Ethanol Technology to DSM
(Delft University of Technology) TU Delft and the Kluyver Centre have developed an innovative technology for efficient production of
March 04, 2011 Read Full Article
The Brew Barons: Masters of Advanced Fermentation, Driving the Redefinition of Biofuels: Pt 1
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...Is there enough energy, food, fiber and feed for all? Advances in industrial fermentation –
March 01, 2011 Read Full Article
Amyris Technology Performs Successfully at Industrial Scale
(Amyris, Inc.) Amyris, Inc., announced that it has completed multiple runs of its fermentation process using Amyris engineered yeast to
February 24, 2011 Read Full Article
Gearing up for Bagasse
by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) KL Energy Corp. is preparing to validate its modified process technology to turn sugarcane
February 21, 2011 Read Full Article
Seaweed Study Boosts Prospects for Marine Biofuels
(EnvironmentalExpert.com) Seaweed biofuel farms have come a step closer to reality with an improvement in the way seaweed sugars can
February 09, 2011 Read Full Article
Scandinavia Goes Viking in Advanced Biofuels
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In the Old Norse, the term “viking” meant to “undertake an expedition” and it
January 17, 2011 Read Full Article
Team Overcomes Major Obstacles to Cellulosic Biofuel Production
(EurekAlert/University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana) A newly engineered yeast strain can simultaneously consume two types of sugar from plants to produce
December 30, 2010 Read Full Article
"Green Genes" in Yeast May Boost Biofuel Production
(Innovations Report) An effort to increase biofuel production has led scientists to discover genes in yeast that improve their tolerance to
December 23, 2010 Read Full Article
Seaweed as Biofuel? Metabolic Engineering Makes It a Viable Option
(PhysOrg.com) Is red seaweed a viable future biofuel? Now that a University of Illinois metabolic engineer has developed a strain
December 17, 2010 Read Full Article
Bioengineers Develop Bacterial Strain That Could Increase Ethanol Production
(Wiley Press Room/Renewable Energy World) A team of Bioengineers in the United States have modified a strain of bacteria to
December 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Using Yeast to Build a Better Plastic
(PR NewsWire) NYU-Poly Chemist Uses Yeast, Plant Oils to Produce Super-Durable Recyclable Plastic. Next Step: Transforming It into Biofuel Dr. Richard
December 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Evaluation Proves Taurus Energy Yeast
(Ethanol Producer Magazine) SEKAB E-Technology and Taurus Energy AB have successfully carried out a three-week long industrial demo scale evaluation
November 22, 2010 Read Full Article
iDiverse Modifies Yeast to Excel under Stress
by Susanne Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Using a proprietary gene construct, California-based iDiverse has successfully modified yeast to be
October 27, 2010 Read Full Article
Cellodextrin Transport in Yeast for Improved Biofuel Production
by Jonathan M. Galazka, Chaoguang Tian, William T. Beeson, Bruno Martinez, N. Louise Glass, Jamie H. D. Cate (Science) Fungal degradation
October 18, 2010 Read Full Article
Sekab Trials Corn Waste Ethanol Production
(Argus Media) Swedish ethanol producer Sekab and Swedish technology specialist Taurus Energy will next month begin trialling the production of ethanol
September 28, 2010 Read Full Article
Waste-Based Microbial Oil set to Become a Raw Material for Renewable Diesel
(Neste Oil Corporation) Neste Oil has applied for patents to cover technology developed to produce microbial oil from waste and residues
September 24, 2010 Read Full Article
Engineering Yeast Can Make Biofuels Commercially Viable
by John Timmer (Ars Technica) ...Cellulose is a very long polymer of sugar molecules. Yeast will happily use those sugars
September 13, 2010 Read Full Article
Indianapolis-Based Xylogenics Licenses Yeast Strain to Ethanol Producer
(Indianapolis Business Journal) Indianapolis-based bioengineering firm Xylogenics Inc. has licensed its proprietary yeast strain to a Milwaukee firm that is
August 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Scientist IDs Genes that Promise to Make Biofuel Production More Efficient, Economical
(EurekAlert) A University of Illinois metabolic engineer has taken the first step toward the more efficient and economical production of biofuels
August 20, 2010 Read Full Article
Promising Ethanol Yeast Nears Market Launch
(Xylogencis, Inc.) ...Two-year-old Xylogenics Inc. also says it plans to license its first bioengineered yeast later this year. This version
August 12, 2010 Read Full Article
Auburn Researchers Finding Ways to Turn Waste Into Fuel
by Travis Herrmann (TheAuburn Plainsman) Auburn University researchers have patented a new process for producing ethanol from paper (m)ill waste
July 30, 2010 Read Full Article
DSM and Roquette to Start Bio-Based Succinic Acid Joint Venture
(DSM) At the 7th annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, taking place this week in Washington D.C. (United States), DSM and
June 29, 2010 Read Full Article
Super-Yeast Generates Ethanol From Energy Crops And Agricultural Residues
(Red Orbit) A new type of baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) has been developed which can efficiently ferment pentose sugars, as found
June 26, 2010 Read Full Article
New Yeast Can Ferment More Sugar, Make More Cellulosic Ethanol
(Purdue University) Purdue University scientists have improved a strain of yeast that can produce more biofuel from cellulosic plant material by
June 24, 2010 Read Full Article
Silver Nanoparticles Mitigate the Cell Damage Caused by Ethanol, Study Suggests
(Science Digest) A new article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) describes how nanoparticles formed by very
June 18, 2010 Read Full Article
Firm Looks to China for Biofuel Technology Agreement
by Max Showalter (JCOnline.com) A startup company at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette has developed an innovative yeast-based cellulosic
June 01, 2010 Read Full Article
Nalco Introduces Yeast Activity Monitor, a New Technology for Global Brewing and Ethanol Markets
(NALCO) The Nalco Yeast Activity Monitor is innovative technology that gives producers unique insight into their fermentation processes that has
June 01, 2010 Read Full Article
Gene Discovery Potential Key to Cost-Competitive Cellulosic Ethanol
(Oak Ridge National Lab) Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving strains of microorganisms used to
May 25, 2010 Read Full Article
Wine-Making Yeast Shows Promise for Bioethanol Production
(Science Centric) Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that might
May 18, 2010 Read Full Article
Novozymes and Nedalco to Improve Biofuel Production
(Novozymes) Novozymes, the world leader in biofuel enzymes, and Royal Nedalco, a leading yeast developer and ethanol producer, collaborate to develop
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Direct Production of Biodiesel from the Fungus M. circinelloides; Opportunity to Enhance Yield with Genetic Engineering
(Green Car Congress) Researchers in Spain have demonstrated the direct transformation of biomass consisting of the fungus M. circinelloides into
April 12, 2010 Read Full Article
Verdezyne and Lallemand Ethanol Technology Partner to Develop and Commercialize Novel Yeast for Enhanced Ethanol Production
Verdezyne, Inc., an industrial biotechnology company, and Lallemand Ethanol Technology, a global provider of yeast to the fuel ethanol industry,
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
A Different Route to Corn-Based Fuel
by Matthew L. Wald (New York Times) Jack Huttner, the executive vice president of Gevo, a five-year old company in
March 23, 2010 Read Full Article
University of Queensland Institute Ignites Plans for Jet Biofuel
(Queensland Business Review) The University of Queensland (UQ) has entered into a new agreement with an American alternative energy company
March 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Butalco Announces It Is to Produce Its First Cellulosic Ethanol in Summer 2010
(PRInside.com) This summer, Butalco will use its proprietary new yeast technology to produce biofuel from agricultural waste in a pilot plant
February 23, 2010 Read Full Article
University of Queensland Institute Ignites Plans for Jet Biofuel
(Queensland Business Review) The University of Queensland (UQ) has entered into a new agreement with an American alternative energy company
February 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Genomes Of Biofuel Yeasts Reveal Clues That Could Boost Fuel Ethanol Production Worldwide
(Science Daily) ... (I)n two studies published online in Genome Research, scientists have analyzed the genome structures of bioethanol-producing microorganisms,
November 10, 2009 Read Full Article
New Yeasts Could Help Fast-Track Biofuel Production
(Science Daily) A new yeast that makes ethanol from both five-carbon and six-carbon sugars without needing oxygen has been developed by
October 08, 2009 Read Full Article
Genome Sequence Published for Important Biofuels Yeast
A strain of yeast that thrives on turning sugar cane and other tough grasses into ethanol that might be used
October 08, 2009 Read Full Article
Brew Your Own Fuel Ethanol at Home in California Using Spent Beer Yeast
GreenHouse is teaming-up with beer pioneer Karl Strauss Brewing Company to convert spent beer yeast into ethanol fuel for California