Jason Boock and Jason Berberich, both professors of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering at Miami University, are researching methods to produce an enzyme that has large potential to change how ...
Tracking individual enzymes during the breakdown of cellulose for biofuel production has revealed how several roadblocks slow this process when using plant material that might otherwise go to waste.
Living things degrade, die, and decompose. Even when we turn plant and animal material into furniture or clothes, the process ...
While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...
A major breakthrough in plastic technology promises to tackle one of the planet’s biggest environmental challenges:plastic ...
Visitors to Cameron Currie’s laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison used to be mesmerized by a demonstration colony of leaf-cutting ants in the lobby. When the microbiologist announced his ...
New research by Penn State researchers reveals how several molecular roadblocks slow the breakdown of cellulose for biofuels. Here, Daguan Nong, assistant research professor of biomedical engineering, ...