With a new method to synthesize a popular pain-relieving medication from plants rather than fossil fuels, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center have […]

A major goal of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center is to harness the power of microbes to create biofuels. But often, it’s an expensive […]

Efforts to reduce concentrations of NO3- in the soil may be effective at reducing “hot moments” of N2O production. The Science Nitrous oxide (N2O) is […]

In a free public seminar at 3:30 PM on February 25, in room 1115 of the Wisconsin Energy Institute, Forest and Wildlife Ecology Assistant Professor Craig Johnston […]

A compound that has scientists seeing red may hold the key to engineering yeasts that produce better biofuels. A red pigment called pulcherrimin, naturally produced […]

An ideal biorefinery would turn renewable crops into a variety of fuels and products with little waste. A significant challenge in realizing this vision is […]

A prestigious early-career award from the U.S. Department of Energy will help a University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher and his team create new modeling tools that […]

In an article published last summer in Science, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) reported on ten years of work assessing the potential climate benefit […]

The sale this past fall of a UW–Madison spinoff that promises to increase efficiency and reduce antibiotic use in making fuel ethanol marks a victory […]