Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester have described a novel enzyme that could significantly change the way ...

An exciting new world is taking shape right now in Leuna, Germany, where UPM (United Paper Mills) is building the world's first biorefinery to create the biochemicals industry of the future – based on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plants use light to make energy – and a team of scientists is using the same principle to power chemical reactions. fhm/Moment via ...

In summer 2008, US crude oil prices reached an all-time high. And so did the ambitions of companies that hoped they could replace oil refineries and chemical plants with microbes genetically ...

Ringed seals are among the most common marine mammals in the Canadian Arctic. They strongly rely on sea ice as a habitat, breathing through holes they maintain in the frozen surface, giving birth in ...