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DuPont Industrial Biosciences awarded grant for high-efficiency biogas enzyme production

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DuPont (via Genencor) has recently developed a new enzyme product, derived from Myceliophthora thermophila C1, that in recent field trials has shown a promising 10% cost-reduction in the production of biogas from organic waste. Earlier post.).

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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These fermentation processes create carbon as a byproduct, with some processes wasting more than 1/3 of this carbon as CO 2 emissions. The University of Minnesota will design a cell-free biocatalytic system that will reduce CO 2 efficiently into formate, a C 1 feedstock, with energy supplied from electricity. ZymoChem, Inc.

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