While the U.S. legacy manufacturing sector continues to build a skilled workforce, secure the domestic supply chain, and widely adopt technological innovations, there is an area in which the U.S. is positioned to secure global leadership - the bioeconomy.

The bioeconomy is often cited as a pathway to securing everything from climate change and...

Industry is among the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S., producing an estimated 24 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA. While great progress has been made – greenhouse gas emissions from industry, including electricity generation, have declined by 22 percent since 1990 – in many cases, alternative production...

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemical Engineering are collaborating with leading biotechnology company Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, and LumaCyte, a biotechnology instrumentation company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, to develop an advanced biomanufacturing technology for adventitious agent testing, or...