Most U.S. water plants, including Toledo’s, use the World Health Organization’s globally accepted guideline for drinking water when deciding how much microcystin — a highly potent algal toxin in western Lake Erie — can safely exist in the public’s Continue reading Science on toxins blooms, but health rules date to 1998
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Cryptophytes: Matryoshka Dolls Of The Waters
A team of researchers headed by Prof Dr. Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel at Ruhr-University Bochum have revealed similarities and differences in the assembly of the light-harvesting machinery of the cryptophyte Guillardia theta compared to cyanobacteria and red algae.
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Algae Biomass Summit Launches White House Petition to Encourage EPA to Approve CO2 Recycling as Emissions Reduction Strategy
WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – Sep 30, 2014) – The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) today announced that it has initiated a “We the People” petition to the White House and called for those who support common sense, market-driven, job-creating and Continue reading Algae Biomass Summit Launches White House Petition to Encourage EPA to Approve CO2 Recycling as Emissions Reduction Strategy
Algae as biofuel focus of summit
For the first time since 2008, the algae research community’s biggest conference is returning to San Diego — the epicenter of algae biotechnology.
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