Euglena soaring on Japanese stock exchange
Satoshi Kawano & Kanoko Matsuyama report for Bloomberg.com that a Japanese biotech venture focused on making jet fuel from algae is soaring in Tokyo trading as cash being pumped…
Queensland project
Professor Ben Hankamer, Director of the Solar Biofuels Research Centre at Pinjarra Hills in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, discusses the new facility, developed by The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) in partnership…
Algae Swimmers
Using high-speed microscopic imaging, University of Cambridge researchers have found that algae move away from surfaces as a result of contact between the surface and the cells’ flagella or cilia…
James Cook U. commercializing algae research
Tony Raggatt writes in townsvillebulletin.com that James Cook University, a leading algal research facility located in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, has started to commercialize its research…
Scotland’s AccliPhot project explores marine algae for biofuel
An international research team led by the University of Aberdeen is researching microalgae from the world’s oceans and seas to make biofuels. Project coordinator Dr. Oliver Ebenhoeh, from the University of Aberdeen…
Growing Algae with Concentrated Desalination
Researchers from Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil, are investigating how well microalgae can grow using concentrated desalination from inland…
Algae & Climate Change
Jorijntje Henderiks, a Palaeobiology Fellow at the Royal Swedish Research Academy, discusses their lab’s research into how marine algae have responded to climate changes in the distant…
New Research Clarifies Algae’s Early Predatory Development
Scientists at Dalhousie University in Canada and the University of Melbourne have published a study in the journal Nature saying that hundreds of millions of years ago microscopic animals captured algae…
EnAlgae Project
EnAlgae (short for “Energetic Algae”) is a research project which aims to reduce reliance on fossil fuels in NW Europe by developing algal biofuel technologies. Swansea University leads the EnAlgae…
“Light Switch” in Cyanobacteria Discovered
Deanna Conners reports in earthsky.org that a collaboration of scientists from Queen Mary, University of London, the Imperial College London and the University College London have discovered a biological…
Algae and Wastewater
Using algae in the wastewater treatment process to remove phosphates and nitrates is a sustainable technology being developed at the University of Bath, in England…
A Case for Mixed Algal Cultures
Charlotte Dormer writes a review, in the Natural Environment Research Council’s Planet Earth online, of research at the University of Cambridge suggesting that, when grown in open ponds, algae should be…
New Harvesting Technique Developed at Sheffield
Sam Shead writes in The Engineer.co that the development of a harvesting technique from researchers at Sheffield University builds on previous research in which microbubbles were used to make algae blooms…
UC Davis, U of Tokyo Collaborating on Algae Biofuels
Green Car Congress reports that a new joint project between UC Davis and the University of Tokyo, Japan, aims at a better understanding of how algae can be used to make biofuels. It is one of four new grants…
UGA and U. of Puerto Rico Create Algae Biofuels Center
Taking advantage of a marine location and tropical climate that are ideal for growing algae, researchers from the University of Georgia and the University of Puerto Rico are creating…
Oxford Study Highlights Advantages and Barriers for Algal Biodiesel
A new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, at the University of Oxford, states that algae-derived biodiesel could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
Tokyo Institute to Build Offshore Algae Farms
Green Car Congress reports, via The Nikkei, that Tokyo Institute of Technology, Takenaka Corp. and other partners are planning to build an offshore pilot plant to grow algae for use in biofuel production…
University of Cambridge
Scientists at the University of Cambridge take a closer look at algae and examine its potential as a renewable source of energy. In the near future algae could be used as a sustainable, carbon neutral biofuel…
