University of Northern Iowa
Posted in Bioenergy, Plant Biotechnology on Jun 21st, 2007
Thanks to increasing demand for ethanol, the price of corn is soaring. As Cynthia Bowers reports, this has farmers in the American heartland seeing gold.
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Posted in Bioenergy, Plant Biotechnology on Jun 21st, 2007
About one-quarter of Mexican farmers who grow agave, used in the production of tequila, are expected to burn their fields to make way for corn. Prices for corn have nearly doubled from what they were a year ago, due to U.S. ethanol demand.
CBS News
Posted in Synthetic Biology on Jun 21st, 2007
In a commentary published this month in Nature Biotechnology, gene-synthesis companies have proposed guidelines for screening and handling the growing number of DNA orders.
Science
Posted in Bioenergy, Plant Biotechnology on Jun 21st, 2007
Sugar found in fruit such as apples can be made into a powerful low carbon biofuel, US researchers say.
BBC News
Posted in Stem Cells on Jun 21st, 2007
The move effectively pushed the debate surrounding the research into the 2008 presidential campaign.
The New York Times
Posted in Bioenergy on Jun 21st, 2007
Renewable energy has moved out of the fringe and into the mainstream, with investors worldwide pouring $71 billion of new capital into the sector in 2006, up 43 percent from the previous year, and more is expected, a U.N. report said.
CBS News
Posted in Stem Cells on Jun 21st, 2007
By pairing the veto with a new scientific initiative, the White House clearly hopes to blunt the inevitable criticism that President Bush will face for vetoing the embryonic stem cell measure.
The New York Times
Posted in Human Genome on Jun 21st, 2007
According to a painstaking new analysis of 1% of the human genome, genes can be sprawling, with far-flung protein-coding and regulatory regions that overlap with other genes.
Science
Posted in Synthetic Biology on Jun 21st, 2007
An activist group’s concern about maverick genome sequencer J. Craig Venter’s intention to patent an entirely synthetic free-living organism has thrown a spotlight on the emerging intellectual-property landscape in this hot new field.
Science
Posted in Marine Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Jun 21st, 2007
Among the nasty compounds produced by the organism responsible for Florida’s red tides is one with some surprising properties.
Science