To make biofuels more economically viable, a group of researchers led by MIT’s Gregory Stephanopoulos is trying to improve the productivity of the microbes that convert treated biomass into ethanol.

A self-powered biosensor detects and destroys E. coli using enzyme-driven energy, aptamer-based recognition, and silver ion ...

A team of researchers has developed a new self-powered biosensor that can detect Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria in ...

(See recent related stories about fuel from whisky and microbes.) But advanced biofuels have not scaled up as quickly as many have hoped. In the United States, for example, there are moves to ...

The company will face competition from others developing microbes that excrete biofuels, including Synthetic Genomics, which has partnered with ExxonMobil; Algenol, which is working with Dow ...

Bacteria often live in multicellular communities known as biofilms. Unlike their planktonic counterparts, bacteria in biofilms are encapsulated in an extracellular matrix, a complex mixture of ...

Although biofuels are in theory carbon neutral ... When ethanol is oxidised by microbes, it forms a compound called ethanoic acid (CH 3 COOH), which is a form of carboxylic acid.

has created Algae BioFuels Inc. as a wholly-owned subsidiary ... promoting ethanol when farmers can't compete against little microbes who are producing 3000 percent as much ethanol as they can.