“For cellulosic biofuels to become economically feasible, microbes need to be able to convert all of a plant’s sugars, including xylose, into fuel."

Sandia National Laboratories’ Algae Raceway Testing Facility: Bringing biofuel research out of the flask and into the pond.

"Added value" researchers have introduced into algae may make biofuels more commercially viable

The researchers conclude that rising biofuel use has been associated with a net increase—rather than a net decrease, as many have claimed—in the carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming

New protein process in E. coli could lead to more efficient options for 'tiniest of factories'

Approach could lower cost and eliminate need for antibiotics during biofuel production

“The CX-1 roots have higher starch content and thus higher potential for fuel ethanol yields than the table varieties,” researcher says

When the going gets tough, the tough get growing

Technique controls toxicity of ionic liquids, could lower cost by recycling key ingredient

Researchers modeled soil carbon sequestration rates for five crops