by | Mar 26, 2020 | Conversion, News
Researchers have developed a triad of innovative tools to engineer low-pH-tolerant yeast Issatchenkia orientalis for production of valuable bioproducts from renewable biomass. A paper published in Metabolic Engineering outlines the study’s three-pronged approach and...
by | Mar 20, 2020 | News, Sustainability
The growing threat of drought and rising water demand have made accurate forecasts of crop water use critical for farmland water management and sustainability. But limitations in existing models and satellite data pose challenges for precise estimates of...
by | Feb 28, 2020 | Conversion, News
The Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has welcomed its newest partner: Co-Investigator Costas Maranas of Penn State University. Maranas, the Donald B. Broughton Professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State (pictured at far right with...
by | Feb 18, 2020 | News, Sustainability
Perennial grasses can be converted into everything from ethanol to bioplastics, but it’s unclear which bioproducts hold the greatest potential. BioSTEAM, a new open-source simulation software package in Python developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at...
