Health | Biotech
Powering vehicles with potato starch
A four-year European project will see leading institutions from across the continent work on developing biorenewable alternatives for the energy and chemical industries....
A four-year European project will see leading institutions from across the continent work on developing biorenewable alternatives for the energy and chemical industries....
A new wearable which uses sweat to detect diseases including cystic fibrosis (CF) has been developed in America. Sweat contains critical data for...
(USA) American food giant Smithfield has launched a biosciences arm with a remit to find new ways of using by-products to...
|14 April 2017| USA Scientists in America have developed a 3D printed patch which helps a ‘broken’ heart heal. The...
|14 April 2017| FRANCE The biotechnology industry will play a leading role in providing solutions to the mounting global pressures of...
|13 April 2017| BELGIUM Could grass provide the aviation industry with biofuels in the future? Scientists in Belgium think so. Researchers...
(TOKYO) Researchers in Japan have discovered that starch in algae could be used to make pharmaceuticals. While oil extracted from...
(MONTREAL) A record-breaking biorefinery in Canada is transforming household waste into biofuels in under five minutes. Enerkem’s facility in Edmonton, Alberta, last year...
|10 April 2017| Europe A leading microbiologist has been awarded €2.5 million to advance the development of biofuels made from bacteria....
(JAPAN) A pioneering Japanese company is building a biorefinery which will produce jet fuel made from a type of algae....