Researchers, as well as members of the engine, vehicle, and fuel industries, rely on these numbers to target compounds for development of new fuels capable of greater energy efficiency, cleaner emissions, and maximum performance in diesel engines. (sciencedaily.com)
But unlike those and other detection schemes, Mirkin and colleagues say, the new approach should make it possible to detect many different target compounds simply by altering the sensing molecule. (sciencemag.org)
«In support of DOE's mission to untangle the complexities of the carbon cycle, we're using the biocrust system to examine the specific metabolites in soil and how microbes target these compounds,» said Trent Northen, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. (sciencedaily.com)