Articles in the Category: Ethanol
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Ethanol, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, SciClips on 05 5th, 2008 | No Comments

Rice Race

Rice Race
Dr. Om Parkash, courtesy of University of Massachusetts Amherst The current rice shortage being felt around the world doesn’t have just one source. It seems that many reasons are causing the food shortage. And, one is quite elemental. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_6030', {src: 'http://www.realscience.us/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf',...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Environment, Ethanol, Genomics, Marine Science, New Species, SciClips on 03 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment

Talking Trash About Biofuel

Talking Trash About Biofuel
Steven Hutcheson, professor of cell biology and molecular genetics and president and CEO of Zymetis Inc. (right), and Ben Woodard, (left), director of the UMd Mtech Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility. A super synthesizing microbe is turning trash into gold. Or at least sugar which can be refined into biofuel....
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