With backing from GM, ethanol start-up hosts a tour of its biotech lab, where scientists are genetically engineering microorganisms that they hope will bring a breakthrough in ethanol production.

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Rice University researchers say that microbes can help us get more biofuel for the buck. Microorganisms can be used to metabolize glycerol--one of the primary byproducts in converting vegetable oil or ...

Researchers from institutions worldwide have been working to develop a method that will allow them to convert pollution in the form of carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethanol. Ethanol is a fuel that ...

India's ethanol story has largely revolved around E20 petrol, but from aviation and industry to clean cooking, the biofuel is finding new applications that could shape its next phase ...

Reliance on petroleum fuels and raging wildfires: Two separate, large-scale challenges that could be addressed by one scientific breakthrough. Teams from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

General Motors has teamed with Coskata to support its new breakthrough technology that supposedly can make ethanol from practically any renewable source – including garbage, old tires and plant waste ...

The process was a success: the composite catalyst achieved an ethanol to C 3+ olefin reaction without external hydrogen and shifted the yield. "We're achieving 78% selectivity at 94% ethanol ...