Industrial & Environmental

What happens in Washington influences biotechnology progress every bit as much as what happens on Wall Street or in the lab.

Sparked by aggressive ethanol mandates by the government, the debate over whether the U.S. can produce enough corn to meet the demand for both food and fuel continues to grow.

Biorefineries to produce advanced biofuels and biobased product require sustainable sources of cellulosic biomass. Adoption of no-till agriculture promises significant economic and environmental benefits for farmers while enabling them to provide cellulosic biomass from crop residues to these biorefineries.

Eighty-two percent of Americans are in favor of government support for the development of biofuels says a new survey released last week by BIO.

Ethanol produced from corn today amounts to about 2 percent of fuel sold in the United States, but Biotech scientists say that cellulosic ethanol can meet much more of America’s energy needs in the very near future.

A comic-style explanation of Synthetic Biology that appeared in Nature.

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