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Implants that Respond to Your Body
Modern regenerative medicine is on the lookout for implantable materials that can change as the surrounding tissue does, and two Stanford University…
Carb Synthesis Sheds Light on Promising Tuberculosis Drug Target
Working with components of the tuberculosis bacterium, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison identified an unusual process by which the pathogen…
'Smart' process may boost economics of biofuel production
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory believe they've identified a simpler way to generate biofuels – a one-step…
Food security for leaf-cutting ants: Workers and their fungus garden reject endophyte invaders
Leaf-cutting ants, one of a few groups of social insects to cultivate crops, have harvested plant material to fertilize their underground fungal gardens for…
Shredding corn silage could produce more ethanol at less cost
By shredding corn stover instead of chopping, as is commonly done, about 40 percent less energy is needed to gain access to more of the material stored in the…
Novel Technology Could Produce Biofuel for Around €0.50 a Litre
Developed by scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), this novel technology is known as bioliq, and is able to produce a range of different…