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Forecasting microbiomes for sustainability and health

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Microbial communities, or microbiomes, are essential for safeguarding human and environmental health through the most widely used biotechnological process on our planet: biological wastewater treatment. Read the full story from the University of Luxembourg.

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BASF is going deeper into industrial biotech

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Microalgae could be the future of sustainable superfood in a rapidly changing world, study finds

Frontiers

This variation on the iconic US advertising slogan from the beef industry may sound funny, but it’s no joke that the current agriculture system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution. It’s what’s for dinner.

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Federal Agencies Announce Investments and Resources to Advance National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative

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As reported in our September 13, 2022, blog item , on September 12, 2022, President Joseph Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) creating a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative “that will ensure we can make in the United States all that we invent in the United States.” forest resources. In addition, the U.S.

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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

Legal Planet

Displacement of other responses : Some are concerned that new technological ESIs could undermine other efforts—such as greenhouse gas emissions reduction and habitat conservation—that address problems closer to their causes. Even though many observers may find ESIs unappealing, they deserve greater attention to help achieve sustainability.

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Fermentation turns greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

Physics World

Unfortunately, they are manufactured from fossil resources using highly energy-intensive techniques that release hazardous waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. How it works: the team took a three-pronged optimization approach to increase fermentation efficiency and output (Courtesy: FE Liew et al / Nature Biotechnology ).

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USDA Celebrates Inaugural National Biobased Products Day, Announces 2022 Award Winners for BioPreferred® Program “Excellence in Procurement”

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The day also aligns with President Biden’s Federal Sustainability Plan and EO Number 14057, which focuses on making the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050 and reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2030. biotechnology and biomanufacturing.