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Researchers Identify Four Genes That Improve Ethanol Tolerance in Yeast; Potential Components of a Genetic Toolbox

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Researchers from S. To assess the overexpressed genes' contribution to the components that have limited biofuel production, the scientists tested them in the presence of high concentrations of glucose (10%), ethanol (5%), and iso-butanol (1%) and compared their performance to a control strain of S. Tags: Biotech Ethanol.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. Its final parking spot was in the U-Pull-&-Pay just north of downtown Denver, so it appears to have spent its entire career in Front Range Colorado. I bought this badge to give to a friend who resides in another wealthy enclave called Montclair. Louis on November 7, 1963.

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Researchers Develop New Strain of Yeast That Can More Efficiently Ferment 5-Carbon Sugars from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks

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Rosa Garcia Sanchez, Kaisa Karhumaa, Cesar Fonseca, Violeta Sanchez Nogue, Joao RM Almeida, Christer U Larsson, Oskar Bengtsson, Maurizio Bettiga, Barbel Hahn-Hagerdal and Marie F Gorwa-Grauslund (2010) Improved xylose and arabinose utilization by an industrial recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain using evolutionary engineering.

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Li-ion Manufacturing Startup Sakti3 To Apply For DOE Loans

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Thurnau Professor of Mechanical, Biomedical and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, is also one of the co-directors of the GM/U-M Advanced Battery Coalition for Drivetrains (ABCD), announced by then-CEO Rick Wagoner at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. Tags: Brief.

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Consortium Win $2.2M ARPA-E Award for Direct Solar Bio-Hydrocarbon Fuel Research; Biocatalytic Coatings Using Bacteria Embedded in Latex

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BioCee, a Twin Cities start-up company, has exclusively licensed the coating technology IP from the U of M and is developing it for commercial applications. Tags: ARPA-E Bio-hydrocarbons Solar. (Skip) Scriven, an Institute of Technology professor, devised the latex coating technology. Microbial Biotechnology doi: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2007.00020.x.

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U of Michigan Study Finds Costs of Plug-in Cars Primary Key to Broad Consumer Acceptance

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The survey of a nationally representative sample of 2,513 adults age 18 and over was conducted between July and November 2008 by the U-M Institute for Social Research as part of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Tags: Hybrids Market Background Plug-ins Policy Surveys. —Curtin et al. Surveys of Consumers.

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Electrolyzed Water for More Efficient Fuel Production from Ethanol Waste Products

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It forms a kind of crystalline structure which is very difficult to break, said U of I researcher Hao Feng. Blaschek (2009) Pretreatment and Conversion of Distiller’s Dried Grains with Solubles for Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) Production. Tags: Brief. Resources. Transactions of the ASABE. 52(3): 885-892.

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