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.

Researchers from institutions worldwide have been working to develop a method that will allow them to convert pollution in the form of carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethanol. Ethanol is a fuel that ...

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 ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In less than a year, cellulosic ethanol startup ZeaChem has raced through ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The key to kicking what President Bush calls the nation’s oil addiction could very well lie in termite guts, canvas-eating jungle bugs and other microbes genetically engineered to spew ...

FARGO, N.D -- With planting less than a month away, a company hoping to contract with farmers in 2012 to convert sugar beets into ethanol at a defunct corn-based ethanol plant in Grafton, N.D., has ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A technology that might offer some respite to first-generation ethanol ...

MADISON -- Mixing up a batch of ethanol from alfalfa or switchgrass isn't nearly as efficient as creating it from corn, but that doesn't mean growing grass crops for fuel won't pay, says Paul Weimer.

Researchers have developed a new process that could make it much cheaper to produce biofuels such as ethanol from plant waste and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Their approach, featuring an ...

ITHACA - Today, it's a vast tract of mud, dirt piles and heavy equipment. ITHACA - Today, it's a vast tract of mud, dirt piles and heavy equipment. A year from now, it's expected to be Michigan's ...

Reliance on petroleum fuels and raging wildfires: Two separate, large-scale challenges that could be addressed by one scientific breakthrough. Teams from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...