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  • Tiny Microbes Could Brew Big Benefits for Green Biomanufacturing

    Tiny Microbes Could Brew Big Benefits for Green Biomanufacturing

    A research team led by Jay Keasling, Senior Faculty Scientist in the Biological Systems and Engineering and CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), has engineered bacteria to produce new-to-nature carbon products that could provide a powerful route to sustainable biochemicals.

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  • Machine Learning Helps Link Chemical Exposure and Obesity

    Machine Learning Helps Link Chemical Exposure and Obesity

    Scientists at Berkeley Lab and their collaborators developed a machine learning technique to discover obesity-related mixed chemical exposure patterns associated with environmental health risk in the general U.S. population. To assess this, they used indicators like body mass index and waist circumference.

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  • ABPDU Hosts 2023 Industry Listening Day

    ABPDU Hosts 2023 Industry Listening Day

    The Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) hosted its 2023 Industry Listening Day on March 7, 2023. Representatives from 41 entities, including 28 companies, participated in the event. 

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  • Agile BioFoundry Selects New Projects

    Agile BioFoundry Selects New Projects

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced the selection of five external collaborations totaling over $3.7 million to conduct research and development needed to accelerate the U.S. biomanufacturing sector. Working with scientists in the Agile BioFoundry (ABF) consortium, these industry and academic groups will leverage national laboratory capabilities to address challenges in biomanufacturing.

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  • ABPDU’s Gas Capture Capability Enables Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Molecule

    ABPDU’s Gas Capture Capability Enables Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Molecule

    The Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU), a research facility funded by Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), collaborated with BETO’s Bioprocessing Separations Consortium, Argonne National Laboratory, and Amyris Inc., a leading synthetic biology company, to develop new experimental setups and technologies to advance volatile product capture.

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