Today's News

In a development the company believes will be a breakthrough in the path to low cost cellulosic biofuels at commercial scale, Denmark’s Novozymes said yesterday that its new “Cellic” CTec3 enzyme product converts biomass to ethanol...

Quantum Dynamic Sciences Inc. and QDS-Environmental Technology Inc., located in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Delaware, have announced the upcoming international testing of their TR-Ultra...

Santa Fe Community College has been named to lead statewide Centers of Excellence in Biofuels and Green Building/Energy Efficiency under a New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions State Energy...

Jeff Obbard of Cellana, Jonathan Trent from NASA AMES, Michael Borowitzka from Murdoch University, Syed Isa from Algaetech International, as well as highly regarded phycologists and scientists from Singapore...

A video portrait of the large-scale algae cultivation environment being assembled by SunEco Energy in Southern California to produce crude algae oil, as well as livestock feed supplement and straight vegetable oil. The 10-acre ponds...

Solazyme Roquette Nutritionals, a microalgae-derived food ingredients company, has announced the company’s exclusive European commercial agency agreement for their food products, with global food...

Algae Biosciences Corporation, which owns and operates large-scale algae production facilities near Holbrook, AZ, has retained Gordon Aldcorn to provide investor relations services. Mr. Aldcorn will initiate...

OriginOil, Inc. has announced that it has named Melbourne-based Frontline Engineering Australia as OriginOil’s first Certified Support Partner worldwide. Building on a successful collaboration to date...

Australia’s Manildra Group has been awarded the world’s first commercial certification by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB). The RSB Global Sustainability Standard represents a global consensus of...

Following major renewable energy financing transactions at the end of last year, the Inter-America Development Bank this year expects to approve loans valued at $1.9 billion for energy and transportation infrastructure and rural development in the Central...

Another would-be cellulosic biofuels producer fell out of the pack last week with Amyris Inc. advising the financial community that it intends to focus on commercializing biochemical and other specialty bioproducts and will leave development of the...

Our human body consists of roughly 100 trillion cells organized biologically. Each cell must be supplied with the nutrients required to sustain life. Metabolism causes the body to consume some of its mineral elements and vitamins in order...

The 2nd Annual Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts has issued a call for abstracts
for their June 10-13 gathering in San Diego. Poster and paper submissions are being invited in all areas...

Rick Rouan writes in Columbus Business First that Marysville, Ohio-based Algaeventure Systems Inc. (AVS) has hired Dr. Guy Carter, a research veteran who retired from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc...

Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI) and New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB) have jointly announced entering into a non-exclusive licensing agreement whereby NEB will commercialize the Gibson Assembly™ Master Mix...

How will algae production be designed into future landscapes, buildings and communities? What will they look like and how will they work? Algae Competition invited algae enthusiasts, architects, designers, visionaries, builders, students...

This video looks at the basics for getting started on growing algae at home or in the classroom. It’s part of a series geared towards teachers and students, but can be used by anyone to grow algae with easily available and inexpensive equipment...

Novozymes has announced an exploratory research agreement with India-based Sea6 Energy to co-develop a process for the production of biofuels from seaweed. The research alliance will use enzymes to convert...

Evodos has announced that they will debut their Type 250 centrifuge at Florida-based algae producer Algae 2 Omega. The Type 250 centrifuge, currently in development, is a larger version of the Evodos Type 10...

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc., North America’s fourth largest ethanol producer, has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year ended December 31, 2011. Net income attributable...