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  • Creating Carbon Negative Materials with Ancient Microbes

    Creating Carbon Negative Materials with Ancient Microbes

    Mango Materials is using methane-eating bacteria to make polymers that can replace carbon-intensive plastics. An ABPDU team led by Ning Sun helped refine their production process.

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  • Turning Agricultural Trash to Treasure

    Turning Agricultural Trash to Treasure

    New funding will help Berkeley Lab and partners improve how the diverse agricultural waste in California’s Northern San Joaquin Valley can be used to make sustainable bioproducts and biofuels.

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  • Scaling up the Bioeconomy Workforce

    Scaling up the Bioeconomy Workforce

    A hands-on laboratory course at the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) is preparing bioprocess engineering students for careers in the bioeconomy.

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  • Infrared and AI Detect Low-dose Radiation Long After Exposure

    Infrared and AI Detect Low-dose Radiation Long After Exposure

    Biosciences researchers have established a powerful new method that couples advanced infrared imaging techniques with statistical machine learning models to quickly and non-invasively determine with high accuracy whether an animal was exposed to radiation—even at extremely low doses almost three months post exposure.

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  • Making Sustainable Products Faster with AI and Automation

    Making Sustainable Products Faster with AI and Automation

    Héctor García Martín, a staff scientist in the Biological and Systems Engineering (BSE) Division, is working to accelerate and refine the synthetic biology landscape by applying artificial intelligence and the mathematical tools he mastered during his training as a physicist.

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