Renewable energy today is predominantly derived from wood, corn, wind, and water. The majority of these first-generation biofuels are burned, which causes greenhouse gases to be released and adds to carbon emissions. 

Killian Award recipient Stephen Lippard describes his work on platinum-based chemotherapy agents

Increased nitrogen-use efficiency of plants and an associated reduced need for nitrogen-based fertilizers may be a step closer following University of Adelaide research on legumes.

Researchers at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have been awarded a research program contract from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sequence, assemble, and annotate a population of bacterial pathogens using two high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies in support of the expansion of a vetted public reference database.

Comparing biochemicals in the GM foods to their non-GM counterparts is enlightening

Computer modeling may help scientist develop crops that yield more with less water

As the Earth’s human population marches toward 9 billion, the need for hardy new varieties of grain crops has never been greater.

Approach tackles newer bullets, eliminates the need for expensive analysis equipment.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a hydrocarbon produced by trees that could potentially replace high-energy fuels, such as JP-10, in missiles and other aerospace applications. With improvements in process efficiency, the biofuel could supplement limited supplies of petroleum-based JP-10, and might also facilitate development of a new generation of more powerful engines.

A new £7 million centre at the University of Leeds will lead UK research in manufacturing advanced chemical products.

An international research group, led by Arizona State University professor Qiang "Shawn" Chen, has developed a new generation of potentially safer and more cost-effective therapeutics against West Nile virus and other pathogens.

Survey of 3.5 Million Americans Shows Marital Status Affects Risk of Heart Disease