The leftovers from brewing beer may soon play a surprising role in the future of food. According to new research from ...

A new study tests whether spent yeast from breweries can supply cellulose scaffolds that support lab-grown meat production.

“While it’s relatively easy to grow animal cells for mass food production you need to be able to grow them on something cheap ...

When manufacturing cellulose-based products, challenges, such as the high melting point of cellulose, make it impossible for it to be melted without decomposition. Thus, shaping cellulose materials ...

Discover how yeast left over from brewing beer can be transformed into edible "scaffolds" for growing sustainable, lab-grown meat.

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), produced by the acid hydrolysis of wood, cotton or other cellulose-rich sources, constitute a renewable nanosized raw material with a broad range of envisaged uses: for ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue researchers have discovered the structure of the enzyme that makes cellulose, a finding that could lead to easier ways of breaking down plant materials to make biofuels ...

Fibers of this category are first suspended in propanol, which prevents rapid dissolution, and are subsequently intermixed thoroughly. As longer fibers typically arrange themselves according to the ...

A Manchester and Dundee collaboration has found out more about one of the most abundant biological substances on the planet. Professor Simon Turner from The University of Manchester and Dr Piers ...