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UCLA engineers develop new metabolic pathway for more efficient conversion of glucose into biofuels; possible 50% increase in biorefinery yield

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The new pathway is intended to replace the natural metabolic pathway known as glycolysis, a series of chemical reactions that nearly all organisms use to convert sugars into the molecular precursors that cells need. Liao (2013) Synthetic non-oxidative glycolysis enables complete carbon conservation. —Bogorad et al.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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This technology was first launched in 2013 for retail ESLs. The processes it used had to be converted to operate in a different, production-ready machine. These are great for generating deeply saturated colors with high contrast, but these four colors cannot be combined to create full-color images. have since come on the market.

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GM provides technical details of the Gen 2 Voltec propulsion system used in the 2016 Volt

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A GM analysis of vehicle data collected from first generation found that Volt vehicles were driven more than half a billion miles in North America from October 2013 through September 2014, and that 74% of the miles were all-electric. (A Clutches are OWC1, C1 and B1. Click to enlarge.

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