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Finding a better way to make biodiesel

... oils into fuel. And the particles themselves are environmentally safe because they are made of calcium and sand. "We're excited about this and so is West Central," Lin said. "This serves as an example of how nanotechnology can be useful for advancing an industry that's not that high-tech. And this allows our stud...

Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety

...les, we can detect things like signs of disease or environmentally hazardous materials much better," said research associate Lindsay. "We can analyze things using small droplets that normally would require much larger amounts of fluid for testing. This reduces the expense of testing because you don't need large amou...

New strategy developed to combat West Nile Virus

... would be more cost-effective and potentially less environmentally threatening." The spread of West Nile Virus through the U.S. has been sporadic, the researchers say, with hotspots arising one year in Colorado, and other regions during other years. The key to understanding the spread of the disease is to investig...

Better sludge through metagenomics

...astewater can be most economically accomplished by environmentally friendly biological means in a process known as en...itus of human activities--necessitating costly and environmentally taxing remedies and exposing the public to potential disease hazards. The scale is daunting--more th...

Most widely used organic pesticide requires help to kill

...into the workings of one of the most important and environmentally friendly weapons in the human arsenal against insect pests has significant implications not only for the control of insects in agriculture, forestry and human health, but for understanding microbial disease in humans and other animals. "The take-ho...

'Killer' B cells demonstrate evolutionary link between fish and mammal immune systems

...aid. "In the long term, farming is a better, more environmentally sound approach to fishing, so better vaccines may make the practice more financially attractive to fisherman and less destructive to fish populations." There is little doubt that, despite the behavioral differences, the fish B cells represent a les...

A green way to slag off bunnies

...ful byproduct of blast furnaces, is dirt-cheap and environmentally friendly. What’s more, it’s already known to act as an effective fertilizer in rice paddies and sugar cane fields. And as it’s not an active chemical, it could circumvent the convoluted pesticide regulatory approval pathway and be used straight away....

The first tree genome is published: Poplar holds promise as renewable bioenergy resource

...rgy needs by giving the United States a homegrown, environmentally friendlier alternative to imported oil," said DOE's Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond L. Orbach. "Fine-tuning plants for biofuels production is one of the keys to making biofuels economically viable and cost-effective. This research, employing...

Technology exists to keep E. coli out of food

...or off-flavors when sprayed on food. The system is environmentally friendly; its only outputs are water and salt. Feirtag sees great potential for the system and is working to get it into the food industry (a few Minnesota companies are already using the system). The solution can be sprayed directly onto foods suc...

Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing

Using environmentally safe compounds like sugars and vitamin C, scientis... 10 ppm. The team showed that you can steadily add environmentally benign "reducing" agents -- vitamin C, sugars or standard free radicals -- to chemically reduce CuII...

BC catalyst discovery promises faster, cheaper drug production

...ance also contains no metals and is therefore more environmentally friendly than many other catalysts. "The new cat...th the potential to result in more efficient, more environmentally friendly, and less expensive processes for manufacturing drugs. It's a great example of how NIH supp...

Genetically engineered blood protein can be used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen

...term, these synthetic molecules may provide a more environmentally friendly way of producing hydrogen, which can be used as a 'green' fuel." ...

New biofuels process promises to meet all US transportation needs

... University chemical engineers have proposed a new environmentally friendly process for producing liquid fuels from plant matter - or biomass - potentially available from agricultural and forest waste, providing all of the fuel needed for "the entire U.S. transportation sector." The new approach modifies convention...

Are we killing the world's oceans?

...ones in the oceans on the rise? Can aquaculture be environmentally sustainable? And how are we all to blame for the collapse of coastal fisheries? Most importantly, what can governments, industry and individuals do about it? Members of the news media are invited to join leading international researchers and gove...

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