Selected Articles
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Towards Cellulosic Biofuels Evolution: Using the Petro-Industry Model
Published on May 31, 2014
While the United States owns only three percent (3%) of the total world petro-oil reserves, it uses over twenty-five percent (25%) of its total global output on an annual basis -
Plant-Produced Recombinant Humaninterleukin-2
Published on April 2, 2013
Recombinant human interleukin-2 (rhIL-2) is a biopharmaceutical protein of great importance, asit is the standard FDA-approved immunotherapeutic treatment for end-stage metastatic melanomaand renal cell cancer. -
Downregulation of Maize
Published on December 1, 2012
Conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars for biofuels requires expensive pretreatment processes involving the breakdown of the cell wall structure. -
The quest for alternatives to microbial cellulasemix production
Published on February 15, 2011
Production of cellulosic ethanol is still expensive compared with corn (maize) grain ethanol due to the highcosts of bulk production of microbial cellulases. -
Expediting the biofuels agenda via genetic manipulations of cellulosic bioenergy crops
Published on May 22, 2009
Cellulosic bioenergy crops are crops whose cellulosic matter could be converted into biofuels. -
The biofuels agenda shall not wait for miracles!
Published on January 1, 2009
Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin the most important medicine in the history of human kind from the mold which grew on the Staphy-lococcus aureus bacterium was completely by chance.