From Farm Waste to Bioplastics: New Review Maps the Path to Sustainable Polymers
A new review finds lignocellulosic biomass is the most scalable feedstock for biodegradable polymers, but high costs and limited infrastructure ...
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Green seaweed Ulva moves from wild harvest to engineered sustainable feedstock
A new review synthesizes global advances in sustainable Ulva biomass production, spanning physiology, genomics, seedling technology and farming systems.
Deep Eutectic Solvents Offer a Greener Route to High-Value Lignin
A new review details how deep eutectic solvents can extract structurally intact, high-value lignin from agricultural and forestry residues under ...
Slaughterhouse By-Products Could Feed the Cells Behind Cultivated Meat
A review argues that bovine blood and organ by-products are nutrient-rich, food-compatible candidates for cheaper serum-reduced culture media in cultivated ...
Fermentation Could Turn Seaweed and Microalgae Into Everyday Foods
A new review outlines how lactic acid, alcoholic, and mixed-culture fermentation can break down algal cell walls, soften marine off-flavors, ...
Loosening the Rim: Peripheral Flexibility Boosts a Cellulase’s Catalytic Power
Engineers boosted a GH5 endoglucanase's catalytic efficiency up to 2.73-fold by mutating solvent-exposed peripheral residues to loosen the catalytic cavity, ...
From Electrons to Biorefineries: How Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning Are Rewiring Plant-Based Chemistry
A new review maps how quantum calculations, reactive simulations, machine learning, and FAIR data infrastructure must be coupled across scales ...
Algae Conversion Advances Point Toward Integrated Biorefineries for Biofuels
A new review synthesizes 2020-2025 advances in converting algal biomass into biodiesel, syngas, bio-oil, ethanol, biogas, and hydrogen, concluding that ...
Lignocellulosic Biofuels Face Steep Commercial Barriers Despite Technological Maturity
A new review finds that lignocellulosic biofuel technologies have reached varying maturity levels, yet technical, economic, policy and infrastructural barriers ...
Sound waves turn Ethiopian coffee waste into high-grade cellulose
Ethiopian researchers used ultrasound-assisted alkaline treatment and two-stage bleaching to convert coffee parchment waste into high-purity, thermally stable microfibrillated cellulose.
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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