which means a longer shelf life (these chemicals kill pathogenic bacteria) and also a faster cheese-ripening process (they kill off the milk's beneficial bacteria sooner).
Monsanto's sweet corn is set to hit the market this fall. Carter assures consumers that his anti-browning engineering only applies to browning from exposure,
The hydrogen and catalysts turn the biomass into a liquid fuel on the mobile platform.
chemical engineer Rakesh Agrawal, said in a statement. Diversifying the source of biomass is a good thing
Virent has made fuels and chemicals from sugars in cellulosic biomass before. But this project used Virdia's sugars generated from pine trees,
Pheromones, those chemicals produced by animals and released into the environment, are used by moths for finding mates.
But the commercial production of large amounts of synthetic pheromones requires the use of harmful chemicals (such as neurotoxins hexane
and the production process can be completed within an hour without the use of pesticides and chemicals.
For over three decades, the chemical has been hailed as safe and incredibly beneficial to the production of corn, soybean, and cotton.
Monsanto introduced the chemical in 1974 and has made since billions of dollars from Roundup and â Ëoeroundup Ready'corn, soybeans,
The chemical is found in more than 750 products in the US. Last year alone, Monsanto made more than $2 billion in sales of glyphosate-based herbicides
(and these numbers are much lower than before the patent expired and generics started appearing).
In the meantime, Monsanto and its corporate agricultural rivals are scrambling to roll out different herbicides and new herbicide-tolerant crops that they hope will halt the advance of weed resistance and silence critics.
than people who never used the chemical. The chemical could be contributing to spontaneous abortions and infertility in pigs, cattle,
and other livestock, while causing malformations in frog and chick embryos. Detectable concentrations of glyphosate have been found in the urine of farmers and their children in two states.
citing research showing the chemical has extreme toxicity, including indications it can cause birth defects. The EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs is in charge of the review
Apple s impressive footfall is proving to be a catalyst for retail spending in the areas in
At $21, the world's cheapest water purifiertata Chemicals has announced what it believes is the cheapest water purifier in the world.
A distillation will get out the chemicals that carry that odor or flavor and take that to make flavorings or fragrances.
They were extracting the chemicals for food additives from it. The remainder they were simply giving away to whoever would take it.
a chemical reaction happens that turns the slimy mass into a little rock-like object that can be collected from the beaches.
because the little rocks have special chemistry: they bind fatty molecules together. Fragrances are made usually of fats, also called lipids.
Despite the absence of chemicals in the farming process aquaponic food won't be allowed to carry either the German or the European union's organic seal on supermarket shelves.
Los alamos National Laboratory Chemistry Division, Dr. W. Douglas Gubler; UC Davis Plant pathology and Dr. Kirsten J. Mccabe;
Monsanto has another idea for facing the water shortage. The agriculture biotechnology company has been testing out drought-resistant corn seeds.
Monsanto shares rose 24%this year, thanks in part to excitement over the new drought-resistant strain, Smartmoney reports.
it can have the greenest chemistry but not be the green product were looking for.
Robert Peoples Directoramerican Chemical Societys Green chemistry Institute I think plastic is going to be with us for a long time.
Green chemistry is all about thinking about end of life considerations before you design the molecule and put it into the environment.
The goal in green chemistry is to reduce or eliminate the hazardous materials or products. Its a proven systems approach.
If you can apply the principals of green chemistry, you wont need regulations. There are zero federally funded green chemistry centers in the U s. China is a mess environmentally right now
but China gets the fact that green chemistry is the solution; there are more than 20 green chemistry centers federally funded by China right now.
They understand that they have created a crisis, and they are going to invent their way out of that crisis. The sad thing is that were paying for it--its our appetite for all of these disposable materials.
Our goal is to always get greener. There are plastics that are greener than others. Theres probably nothing out there that wed call truly green,
Å It is eco friendly and chemical free, Â he said. Å It also saves trees.
Å So now I dont have to use urea or chemical fertilizers, Â he said.
You need to do a bit of chemistry to get the sugar out. Mother Nature has five types of sugars--we can use two types,
That's really the challenge with all these fuel and chemical technologies, they have to cross the Valley of Death.
The first thing we want to do is sell butanol into the chemical market. That's a $7 billion dollar market.
when you sell into the chemical market, and we should have completed our facility by the end of 2011.
From a volume perspective, the fuels market is much better than the chemicals market. The chemicals market is pretty exciting--the revenues are the same.
Trillion-plus-dollar markets. The real key to winning is to get out there and build a lot of these things
The crux of these awards is that they recognize innovations in sustainable agricultural that encourage the rise of so-called sustainable agriculture--which encourages farming according to methods that don t introduce chemical pesticides
and fossil fuel that s needed to make chemical fertilizer, mechanize working the land and its crops,
And they release dangerous chemicals like BPA as they do so. Picture by CBS from Photobucket.
The coalition is made up of local chambers who are focused on the flip side of addressing climate change--that it could be a catalyst for group.
What else are you doing to reduce the level of chemicals put into he environment through your products?
We re developing a bio-herbicide to kill weeds that would replace the chemical herbicides.
Meanwhile, Monsanto (yep the herbicide and GM seeds maker) is developing a new weapon to battle the disorder:
The EERC is working withã Â Vermont-basedã Â Wynntryst to develop a gasification power system to use the waste from the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters processing plant to produce energy.
or it will be converted to biofuels or chemicals. The pilot-scale tests will determine the quality of syngas that can be produced from the Green Mountain waste.
The measures have been a major setback to seed giants like Monsanto who argue that GMOS--like those that produce crops resistant to disease--are feed necessary to a growing planet and pose no harm to humans or the environment.
even though Monsanto argues that no legitimate, peer-reviewed studies have proven this. The European union has required such labeling for nearly a decade.
I was first a chemical engineer for Nalco Chemical. I grew up in the industrial boat.
We have a lot of technologies around desalination that reduce the cost, take the energy cost out--about 50 percent of the cost of running a desal plant is energy
delivering the news like an unexpected pregnancy test the crop developed genes that are resistant Monsanto's Roundup or Bayer's Liberty Link herbicide.
Monsanto: Supreme court lifts ban on genetically modified seeds
Genetically modifying plants to absorb arsenicsince ancient times, humans have been using and abusing arsenic for everything from mining to medicine to murder.
It's a great example of digital data used as a catalyst for action. Full disclosure-the founders of the Cedar Grove Institute are old friends of mine.
All of the water in the emirate's distribution system--the water used for human consumption--is produced by nine large desalination plants, to the tune of 634 million Imperial gallons a day in 2011.
ADWEC Virtually all desalination activities are powered currently by natural gas-fired cogeneration plants burning an average of 1. 73 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of gas.
About half of that power generation is used for desalination. Therefore, about 0. 86 Bcf/d of gas went to water desalination in 2011,
which likely rose to 1 Bcf/d in 2012 (data for 2012 is not yet available).
In short, it imports almost exactly the same amount of gas as Abu dhabi uses for water desalination.
Desalination is the only way to produce more water in these arid countries. To put the word arid in perspective,
Desalination has so far proved the answer, but in 50 years'time we will have no usable groundwater left,
Caught between the rapidly rising cost of natural gas-powered desalination and exploding water demand, Abu dhabi is looking to its massive solar resource
We are ready to aggressively pursue desalination powered by renewable energy Dr. Sultan al-Jaber said at a press conference.
commercially viable desalination plant powered by renewables operating by 2020. More than 48 companies are already on the short list for consideration as technology partners.
If they could free those amount of fossils they use just for desalination, if they could free those amount of fossils by using solar,
it's clear that desalination alone--especially if it's powered entirely by relatively expensive renewables--can't solve the Middle east's problem.
The enormous amount of food grain production in the state has been made possible due to irrigation, chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
I was a chemistry major in college and got a job at Dunkin'Donuts in their research and development lab. The entire summer,
I gave chemistry a try the following summer and decided I wanted food science. I love it.
--whether it's packaging or chemistry or biology or micro-engineering. It's special working here.
when placed in a chemical reacting zinc solution, Alyssa Danigelis of  Discovery News recently reported.
which uses more chemical fertilizer than any other country. Ten million tons of fertilizer pollute Chinese waterways each year,
hot water, space heating, water desalination, and other industrial purposes. Within the emerging industry, solar thermal power takes many forms towers, troughs, cones, mirrors, lenses.
Monsanto: Supreme court lifts ban on genetically modified seedsin a case involving agricultural giant Monsanto, the U s. Supreme court has lifted a ban on genetically modified alfalfa seeds.
The move will likely affect the regulation of other biotech crops, including genetically modified sugar beets, and could make it easier for GM CROPS to stay on the market,
Monsanto engineered the alfalfa seeds to be resistant to the weed killing herbicide Roundup Ready,
Some 95 percent of beets grown in the U s. carry the Monsanto bacterial gene that resists the herbicide glyphosate, present in Roundup Ready.
Though the verdict of the Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farm case doesn't come as much of a surprise to anyone who had been following it,
Monsanto appeals the ruling, sending the case to the Supreme court. 2010: Monsanto wins. The Supreme court rules 7 to 1. The decision means that farmers,
growers and seed producers can have a hearing before an injunction is put in place. In other words:
For example, 92 percent of soybeans and 85 percent of corn uses Monsanto technology, leaving them helpless when Mother Nature strikes back.
and chemical companies starting to sell old chemical compounds that posed more environmental risks than Roundup
so you don t have to use chemicals. Our water consumption at Fort Smith decreased 40 percent.
exposure to infectious diseases, including HIV, to chemical contaminants, such as some illegal drugs, and to a limited number of prescription drugs that might be in the human milk,
Road transportation a'key driver'of global warminganalyzing impact by economic sector rather than chemical species, NASA scientists have determined that motor vehicles are the greatest contributor to atmospheric warming, now and in the near term.
For each sector of the economy, they analyzed the effects of a wide range of chemicals--such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, organic carbon black carbon, nitrate, sulfate and ozone--on the atmosphere, particularly clouds.
What's surprising is that many industries produce chemicals that actually cool the globe, according to the study.
the Chemicals Used, such as the presence of hazardous substances like polyvinyl chloride (PVC); and the Materials Used
MIT chemistry professor Timothy Swager, who led the project along with a group of students, envisions the inexpensive sensors  attached to cardboard boxes of produce
and chemical stability opens up a wide range of industrial applications, such as drilling and exploring deeper and deeper into Earth s interior.
and produce biological charcoal that be used as a replacement for wood charcoal or chemical fertilizers.
they are digging several feet underground to find clay with a similar chemical make-up to the clay used in the time period
while chemical baths are used to age bronzes. Â Shapes are replicated near perfectly with the help of 3d scanning technologies.
so he can use the portable spectrometer to test for chemicals used to simulate aging.
wheat straw, switchgrass and other nonfood crops--into sugar which can then be fermented into fuels, feed and chemicals.
and excessive amounts of drug residue by identifying more than 60 varieties of chemicals, reported China's official Xinhua news agency.
were scared also by reports that Chinese farms use more than 3 times global average amounts of chemical pesticides.
Bioengineering e coli to turn seaweed into fuel Fed-backed Range Fuels sells plant for pennies on the dollar Chemical giant BASF invests in biomass-to-sugar startup Next-gen biofuels in 2012:
ones that marry a love of the land with advanced knowledge of chemistry and biotechnology.
It's made of thousands of different chemicals and you're testing on people who could have any manner of different lifestyles.
by looking at it on an elemental and chemical basis we can basically cut out these very wasteful,
if Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch hadn invented a chemical way of ripping inert nitrogen from the atmosphere
CSU's Ken Reardon, professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering: If Cobalt can convert beetle-killed wood,
So free of chemical amendments and optimized for nutrient and mineral value, the produce grown in the dome is beyond organic,
the scientists identified a finger print that is unique for each of the explosive chemicals they exposed it to,
Because molecules in the environment are constantly changing into other chemicals, we need sensor platforms that can detect the entire network and classes of chemicals, instead of just one type.
If the sensors make their way out of the lab and into the real world, they would be more sensitive than the spectrometry-based systems that are used currently to detect explosives in the air.
In the future, let's hope a single-molecule sensor can stop someone like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab A k a. the underwear bomber from slipping through security.
The production process does not involve any use of pesticides, chemicals, herbicides, fungicides, antibiotics or hormones.
especially since a locally-manufactured formula laced with the industrial chemical melamine killed six infants in 2008
which might mean seeking out gas or chemical leaks, or people who are trapped in small spaces.
Not only does this hydroponic system provides healthy and chemical-free produce, it as well serves as an education tool for children.
and without the use of chemical pesticides or fertilizers. This is a much more labor intensive way of farming that brings back the need for community participation.
No, actually, it's chemistry. Gustavo Castro is an environmental chemist at who says he'd heard for a long time that the peel of the banana was the best part of the fruit,
So he decided to investigate its chemical composition to see if these banana peel boosters were told right,
he the American Chemical Society in a. What he found was that banana peels contain nitrogen, sulfur and organic compounds such as carboxylic acids.
The were published earlier this year in the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, a publication of the American Chemical Society.
Roundup originally made by Monsanto but now also sold by others under the generic name glyphosate has been little short of a miracle chemical for farmers.
It kills a broad spectrum of weeds, is easy and safe to work with, and breaks down quickly, reducing its environmental impact.
after Monsanto created its brand of Roundup Ready crops that were modified genetically to tolerate the chemical,
That reduced erosion, the runoff of chemicals into waterways and the use of fuel for tractors.
which is financed by the agricultural chemical industry. There are roughly 170 million acres planted with corn, soybeans and cotton, the crops most affected.
Monsanto, which once argued that resistance would not become a major problem, now cautions against exaggerating its impact. oeit a serious issue,
Of course, Monsanto stands to lose a lot of business if farmers use less Roundup and Roundup Ready seeds. oeyou re having to add another product with the Roundup to kill your weeds,
Monsanto argues that Roundup still controls hundreds of weeds. But the company is concerned enough about the problem that it is taking the extraordinary step of subsidizing cotton farmers purchases of competing herbicides to supplement Roundup.
Monsanto and other agricultural biotech companies are also developing genetically engineered crops resistant to other herbicides.
Monsanto newest corn is tolerant of both glyphosate and glufosinate, and the company is developing crops resistant to dicamba, an older pesticide.
And Dow chemical is developing corn and soybeans resistant to 2 4-D, a component of Agent orange, the defoliant used in the Vietnam war.
"The Futurefarms operation avoids the use of chemical sprays and artificial fertilisers, but it cannot claim to be organic.
But a strict government policy regulating the chemical components of biohacking might have much the same effect as laws banning gun ownership ordinary citizens will be discouraged,
or bacterial infection or in those individuals undergoing dialysis for kidney failure. Clinical trials at the US National Cancer Institute and other world centers have indicated that Astragalus can strengthen immunity
but experts say it likely would not be a simple compound of chemicals. A pill-sized food replacement system would have to be extremely complex because of the sheer difficulty of the task it was being asked to perform
more complex than any simple chemical reaction could be. The most viable solution, according to many futurists, would be a nanorobot food replacement system.
But a person can t just eat a radioactive chemical and hope to be healthy,
"Coskata uses existing gasification technology to convert almost any organic material into synthesis gas, which is a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
or using thermo-chemical catalysts to produce ethanol, Coskata pumps it into a reactor containing bacteria that consume the gas
Gasification and bacterial conversion are common methods of producing ethanol, but biofuel experts said Coskata is the first to combine them.
merges the feedstock flexibility of gasification with the relatively low cost of bacterial conversion. Tobey said Coskata's method generates more ethanol per ton of feedstock than corn-based ethanol
eat the whole thing like you would chew a grape. oewe re trying to avoid any kind of chemical modification and just use natural processes and materials,
and Monsanto, carefully avoid addressing the root causes of the food crisis. The"solutions"they prescribe are rooted in the same policies
Chemical inputs mechanized farming methods, and the start of the animal agriculture business all saw dramatic increase in yields,
The success of the first tested genetically engineered cotton in 1990 led biotech company Monsanto to introduce herbicide-immune soybeans aka, oeround-Up Ready in 1995,
and modern chemicals to get industrial yields but without industrial consequences. If the approach works at commercial scales,
and a new generation of crops designed to be drenched in toxic chemicals.''We have to figure out this fusion of industrial and organic.
said Liebman. oewe can double down, load more chemicals into the system, and get another decade of increasingly ineffective control
with lots of chemicals. For the second plot, the researchers rotated over three years between corn, soy and oats,
it was every bit as profitable. oewe exceeded those goals not by pumping chemicals in, but by maximizing ecosystem services, Davis said. oewe re not throwing away those tools.
The facility hopes to produce an anticipated 1 million pounds of chemical, -herbicide-and pesticide-free leafy greens--including basil, arugula, mints and other greens--to the Chicago area once it hits full production.
computers, sporting goods, cosmetics, etc. â chemical production: industrial compounds, high-value compounds, plastics, chemical synthesis, etc. â human health:
medical drugs and devices, over-the-counter medicine, clinical therapies, etc. This field has taken on a life of its own due to economic incentives:
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