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Matthijs Groenewolt (BASF), Markus Mechtel (Covestro), and Thomas Heußer (Audi) developed the first bio-based clearcoat for cars.

Automobile unspecific Materials sciences

Bio-based coating for cars

A pan-German collaboration of Audi, BASF, and Covestro developed a new bio-based car coating. Thus reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions during production.

The global March for Science will take place on April 22.

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March for Science reaches Berlin

A global event for the freedom of science taking place on April 22. In Germany demonstrations are planned at 20 sites - from Berlin to Heligoland.

Sugar beets on a field, ready for harvest. The large, sugar-storing beets are clearly visible.

Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences

More sugar in the beet

Where does the sugar in the sugar beet actually come from? Scientists from research and industry looked into this question in order to increase yields from sugar beet.

Emmanuelle Charpentier discovered the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas and will now head her own Max-Planck research unit.

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CRISPR discoverer gets own research institute

Emmanuelle Charpentier discovered the revolutionary genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas. Now she will head her own Max-Planck research unit in Berlin.

Scientists at the newly established Land-Atmosphere Feedback Observatory (LAFO) aim to decipher the weather.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Predicting the weather

Extreme weather occurrences are endangering harvest yields worldwide. To enable more precise weather forecasts a new Land-Atmosphere Feedback Observatory (LAFO) will be established.

Gerste, Genomsequenzierung
Malting barley at the time of grain filling

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

The barley genome in HD quality

Aided by new sequencing technologies, Nils Stein and his team of plant geneticists have succeeded in decoding all seven chromosomes of the barley genome far quicker than was originally planned. In the process, they have greatly added to the genome map of this important agricultural crop.

Abut 500 million frogs are eaten each year - where do they all come from?

Food Animals Biodiversity

Where do frog legs come from?

Berlin-based researcher establish new analysis of origin for frog legs. The specific pattern of isotopes within each animal can tell, whether they indeed stem from sustainable farms.

Extreme weather occurences like hailstorms destroy up to 90% of wine yields.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Wineries will have to move due to extreme weather

Global climate change is costing the wine industry billions of dollars each year. An international team of researchers established a “Global Risk Index for Wine Regions”.

The DFG is funding 17 new Priority Programmes with €100 million.

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DFG is funding genome editing and microbiota

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding 17 new Priority Programmes with a total of €100 million. Three of the Life Science projects are focused on bio-based economy.

The "Window on biobased economy" presented more than 20 inventions, spanning building materials and the auto-motor industry.

Automobile unspecific Agriculture sciences

Bio-based and digitalized – Hannover Messe 2017

Industry 4.0 via digitalization spanning robots and bio-based economy – that is the main message of the Hannover Messe 2017.  

More than 250,000 participants of the "LivingLand" inititative voiced their support for sustainable farming policies for tommorow.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

“LivingLand” initiative closes with great support

More than 250,000 Europeans voiced their support for a change in the agriculture industry towards sustainable farming policies across Europe.

Biosprit, Bioethanol, Benzin, Tankstelle
Bioethanol is added to E10 and E5 fuels.

Automobile unspecific Energy technologies

Bioethanol increases market shares

The consumption of bioethanol as part of the petrol market has increased slightly in Germany. In 2016 1.2 million tonnes of bio-based ethanol has been added to fuels.

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What plastic does to our waters

What are the effects of plastic waste on ecosystems? That is the question that biologist Carolin Völker and her colleague Johanna Kramm are trying to answer with their projects in their junior research group ‘PlastX’.

Microplastic particles accumulate in the oceans and negatively affect marine organisms.

Chemistry Microorganisms Environmental technology

Groundbreaking microplastic paper retracted

A body of research has shown the negative consequences of microplastics for aqueous life. Now, a seminal paper that had demonstrated behavioural changes in fish was retracted.

The global cultivation area of GM maize is growing, but scepticism in Europe and Germany remains high.

Food Plants Agriculture sciences

Global cultivation of GMO is growing

The global cultivation area of GMO crops is growing, but Europe and especially Germany remain sceptical regarding the usage of GMOs.

Biopolymere

Consumables Plants unspecific

Biopolymers (2017) – Facts and Statistics

The study published by the Institute for Bioplastics and Bio-Compounds (IfBB) provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the bioplastics sector.

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Austria

In the Alpine Republic, the bioeconomy strategy is based on the food industry, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and the timber industry.

Die preisgekrönte Mikrobiologin Nicole Dubilier erforscht im Meer das Zusammenleben von Mikroben mit anderem Meeresgetier.

Chemistry Animals Biotechnology/Systems biology

Searching for synergy in the ocean

Even as a child, Nicole Dubilier was fascinated by the sea. Today, she counts among the world's leading microbiologists.

zwei unterschiedlich stark gefärbte und verzweigte Algen auf hellem Untergrund
Two species of red algae that produce carrageenans with different structures and properties.

Chemistry Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology

Marine sugars from algae

From cosmetics to the food industry – in the BioTrim research project, enzymes from marine bacteria are used to modify carrageenans.

Wurde das Gencluster in den rot markierten Bakterien ausgeschaltet, konnten sie kein Detergens mehr synthetisieren. Sie konnten sich dann nicht mehr so gut an die Oberfläche von Öltröpfchen anheften (links) wie normalerweise (rechts).
If the gene cluster in the red-labelled bacteria was switched off, they could not synthesise any more detergent. They were then no longer able to adhere to the surface of oil droplets (left) as well as they normally do (right).

Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology

How a marine bacterium digests oil

Researchers were able to clarify how the oil-eating marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis synthesises a natural detergent to destroy the alkanes contained in crude oil.