With backing from GM, ethanol start-up hosts a tour of its biotech lab, where scientists are genetically engineering microorganisms that they hope will bring a breakthrough in ethanol production.

With growing global energy demands, the push for sustainable fuel alternatives has led scientists to explore biofuel production from microorganisms. A recent study led by Bharat Kumar Majhi presents ...

A Brazilian study paves the way to increased efficiency of second-generation (2G) ethanol production based on the discovery of novel targets for metabolic engineering in a more robust strain of ...

FRANKLINTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - President George W. Bush toured a laboratory working to convert wood chips to ethanol on Thursday, touting his plan to boost U.S. use of the home-grown fuel ...

BUFFALO LAKE -- This is the day that trucks are expected to rumble out of the gate carrying the first ethanol produced at the former Minnesota Energy plant in Buffalo Lake since early 2010. The former ...

Grayling Willer from Akron, Iowa has questions about proposed CO2 pipelines from ethanol plants: “There have been CO2 pipeline projects proposed to go through our area, carrying CO2 from ethanol ...

JOHNSTON, Iowa — Farmers across the globe are looking to Iowa when it comes to ethanol production. That's because the state had yet another record-breaking year in ethanol production. A total of 4.5 ...