EWING, N.J., Dec. 17, 2012 – Proterro, Inc., a company making sugar instead of extracting it from crops, has closed on a $3.5- million financing round led by current investor Braemar Energy Ventures. Cultivian Ventures and Middleland Capital joined as new investors, with other existing investors, Battelle Ventures and its affiliate, Innovation Valley Partners, also participating in the round. Weiterlesen →
Solazyme Towards Commerical Scale Production
South San Francisco, CA (December, 2012) – Solazyme, Inc., a renewable oil and bioproducts company, announced today the successful completion of multiple initial fermentations at ADM’s Clinton, Iowa facility. In these runs, Solazyme achieved commercial scale production metrics, exhibited linear scalability of its process from laboratory scale, and demonstrated the ability to run at this scale without contamination. Weiterlesen →
3rd International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels & Bioproducts – Call for Abstracts
The abstract submission deadline is only a few weeks away! Submit your abstract for presentation and join 3rd International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels & Bioproducts the at The Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Canada from 16 – 19 June, 2013. Weiterlesen →
Crimes of evolution: algae held captive and genes stolen
Microscopic animals held algae captive and stole their genes for energy production, thereby evolving into a new and more powerful species many millions of years ago reveals a new study published today in the journal Nature. The results reveal a ‘missing link’ in evolution because the tiny animal thieves (protozoa) couldn’t completely hide all evidence of the captive algae, and have been effectively frozen in time and caught in the act by genetic sequencing. Weiterlesen →
Biologists Engineer Algae to Make Complex Anti-Cancer ‘Designer’ Drug
Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in genetically engineering algae to produce a complex and expensive human therapeutic drug used to treat cancer.
Their achievement, detailed in a paper in this week’s early online issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, opens the door for making these and other “designer” proteins in larger quantities and much more cheaply than can now be made from mammalian cells. Weiterlesen →
QDVC launches the first phase of an algae carbon sequestration project in Qatar
As part of Qatari Diar Vinci Construction’s (QDVC) commitment to sustainable development, the company is launching a major new carbon sequestration project in Qatar. This initiative will start with an analysis of the brown algae belonging to the species Hormophysa cuneiformis in the North West of Qatar. Weiterlesen →
DOE Funds Research on Transportation Fuel from Microalgae
Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biomass Program, Dr. Adeniyi Lawal of Stevens Institute of Technology will be leading a team investigating microalgae as a biomass fuel source. Weiterlesen →
Bioreactors for algae-based biofuels get $900K grant
A Cornell research team has received a $910,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to work toward revolutionizing how biofuels are produced from algae. David Erickson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Largus Angenent, associate professor of biological and environmental engineering, have teamed up to design and build a completely new type of bioreactor that efficiently delivers light and collects fuel produced by algae inside the reactors. Weiterlesen →
Algae congress confirms its strong international position
Rotterdam, 5 December 2012 — Microalgae – the small versatile aquatic plants we all know so good – were responsible for gathering more than 110 participants from around the world in the beautiful Floating Pavilion in Rotterdam. The organiser, DLG BENELUX, chairmen René Wijffels of Wageningen UR and John Benemann of MicroBio Engineering, Inc. look back to a successful event. Weiterlesen →
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Global Clean Energy forms strategic alliance with Algae Farm USA
Houston, Texas– Global Clean Energy, Inc. and Algae Farm (USA), Inc. have formed a strategic alliance to bring feedstocks to sustainable, scalable and profitable applications based on the work done by Algae Farm USA. Weiterlesen →