15-04-13 Researchers at The University of Manchester have made a significant breakthrough in the development of synthetic pathways that will enable renewable biosynthesis of the gas propane. This research is part of a programme of work aimed at developing th...

15-02-25 Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have invented a novel pretreatment technology that could cut the cost of biofuels production by about 30 percent or more by dramatically reducing the amount of enzymes needed to breakdown the ra...

14-10-04 Yeast are commonly used to transform corn and other plant materials into biofuels such as ethanol. However, large concentrations of ethanol can be toxic to yeast, which has limited the production capacity of many yeast strains used in industry. Toxi...

10-08-20 A University of Illinois metabolic（变化的，新陈代谢的） engineer has taken the first step toward the more efficient and economical production of biofuels by developing a strain of yeast（酵母，泡沫） with increased alcohol tolerance. Biofuels are p...

10-06-14 A research team at the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has developed a powerful new tool that promises to unlock the secrets of biomass（生物量） degradation（降级，退化） , a critical step in the development of cost-effective cell...