(Nanowerk News) Health food enthusiasts routinely shell out over $30 per pound of dried algae powder to whip up green smoothies to fuel their bodies. Algae can also power vehicles, but algae-based ...

A University of Missouri researcher is pioneering an innovative solution to remove tiny bits of plastic pollution from our ...

Algae may be found in oceans and lakes, but some scientists are hoping that the next place you’ll see these organisms is a coal-fired power plant. That’s because algae, which mostly reside in aquatic ...

Algae may be tiny, but new research suggests the single-celled organisms could play an outsized role in slowing the rate of global warming over the rest of the 21st century. Algae may be tiny, but new ...

Washington State University researchers have developed a way to grow algae more efficiently -- in days instead of weeks -- and make the algae more viable for several industries, including biofuels.

The time it takes to grow new skin for burns victims could be improved thanks to a new method of cell cultivation using algae, developed by University of Queensland researchers. Our work shows muscle ...

The oil producer has teamed up with Synthetic Genomics to commercialize one of biotech's holy grails: algae fuels. We have fossil fuels today because a bunch of algae and other biomass sank to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For the first time, scientists say they have ...