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.

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 ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Inside his bright, new laboratory at the University of Florida, researcher Lonnie Ingram is trying to build a better bug. That's what scientists and others call the microscopic ...

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Sweden’s University of Borås doctoral student Ramkumar Nair has shown it is possible to produce bioethanol from agricultural and industrial waste in existing plants in a socioeconomically sustainable ...

UPTON, Wyo. - In this tiny town on Wyoming's northern plains, workers feed large piles of aromatic pine chips into a labyrinth of pipes and tanks that process the wood into 200-proof liquid ethanol.

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

SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) - The ethanol industry may be bloated, with VCs investing more than $1.2 billion into 34 ethanol companies over the past half decade. But investors are still ...

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is risking “making a liar out of the president,” the head of an ethanol industry group said Wednesday. “It’s just chipping away at biofuel demand,” said Emily Skor, ...