In France, DEINOVE announced that it has been granted six new patents in the United States: • “Process for chromosomal engineering using a novel DNA repair system”, Deinove’s founding patent, already registered in Europe. It describes the mechanism behind the biodiversity and resistance of Deinococcus bacteria, a major discovery made by Prof. Miroslav Radman’s team […]
In Delaware, DuPont Industrial Biosciences has signed an agreement to purchase enzyme and technology assets from Dyadic International Inc., including Dyadic’s C1 platform, a fungal expression technology for producing enzymes. The transaction will further extend the world-leading biotechnology capabilities of DuPont’s Industrial Biosciences business. Under the terms of the agreement, DuPont will pay $75 million […]
In Japan, researchers have identified the first reusable and cost-effective heterogeneous catalyst for the depolymerisation of lignocellulose. Air oxidation of woody biomass (Eucalyptus) provides a carbonaceous material bearing an aromatic skeleton with carboxylic groups (2.1 mmol g−1) and aliphatic moieties. This catalyst hydrolyses woody biomass (Eucalyptus) to sugars in high yields within 1 h in […]
In Canada, Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and the Agricultural Adaptation Council (AAC) are fostering innovation in the province’s growing agri-based industrial bioproducts sector. Through the C$3 million Agri-Based Industrial Bioproducts (ABIB) R&D Challenge launched Monday, OCE and AAC will partner with the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), academia and the bioproducts industry […]
In Tennessee, a hybrid optical microscope/mass spectrometry-based imaging system developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory operates under ambient conditions and requires no pretreatment of samples to analyze chemical compounds with sub-micron resolution.Researchers noted that the resolution of less than one micron is essential to accurately differentiate and distinguish between polymers […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), announced their interest in receiving applications for genomics- based research that will lead to the improved use of biomass and plant feedstocks for the […]
In Washington state, a new video released by Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest, a consortium of education and industry partners including Washington State University Extension, explains how cellulosic ethanol is helping prepare the Pacific Northwest for a sustainable hardwood bioproducts and biofuels industry. The consortium believes that one day cellulosic biofuels from hardwood could be a […]
In Texas, the downturn in the bioenergy industry has led one Texas A&M AgriLife Researcher to reach to new heights in the forage biomass arena. Dr. Russ Jessup, an AgriLife Research perennial grass breeder in College Station, said he is introducing a new biofuel-biomass feedstock that is a hybrid “similar to seedless watermelons, seedless grapes […]
In Tennessee, using neutrons, researchers have now investigated the reaction mechanism of an important class of enzymes: the glycosidases. The measurements were made at the neutron sources in Los Alamos and Oak Ridge (USA), as well as at the research neutron source FRM II of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The results provide the […]
