Agrivida, Inc. announced a collaboration with Syngenta Ventures on 13 Dec ’10 to develop advanced crop technology that will provide low-cost sugars for a variety of industrial applications including biofuels […]

Using corn starch and sugar as feedstocks, a Tel Aviv University researcher and his team are researching into producing biodegradable plastics that are even tougher than those made from petrochemicals. […]

Will we one day design and create molecules, cells and microorganisms that produce specific chemical products from simple, readily-available, inexpensive starting materials? Will the synthetic organic chemistry now used to […]

A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers report in the 26 November ’10 issue of Science that they have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks including […]

In theory, plants could be the ultimate “green” factories, engineered to pump out the kinds of raw materials we now obtain from petroleum-based chemicals. But in reality, getting plants to […]

Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) chemists have found a new way to expand plants’ […]

Amid ongoing concern about plastic waste accumulating in municipal landfills, and reliance on imported oil to make plastics, scientists are reporting development of a new ultra-light biodegradable foam plastic material […]

THE Brazilian petrochemicals company Braskem is planning to start up an industrial-scale plant producing ‘green’ polypropylene in 2013 from cane-based ethanol. The plant would have a capacity of at least […]