The Joint Genome Institute has gotten attention lately as its poking and prodding of microbes, plants, and other organisms gives increasing reality to the hope for biofuel alternatives. This article reports on biofuel news out of the AAAS meeting, as well as updates on JGI work.
And that gives us a reason to link to this press release from energy company BP, which at the beginning of this month announced a $500 million research program into biofuels with academic partners at the University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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