A barrel of microalgae offers chemicals to make biodiesel, pharmaceuticals, infant formula and cleaning agents, to name a only a few resources. However, to efficiently capture all of the high-value ...

High-starch algae are important in biofuel production, as a feed supplement in agriculture and as an efficient way to bind carbon dioxide. Researchers have now found a new method to control starch ...

Toxic algae can pose serious problems. Mussels become poisonous and aquaculture can be wiped out. But despite the monitoring of algae and toxins, it is very difficult to forecast when an algal bloom ...

Dermatologists who once dismissed algae as nothing more than the green gunk that clogs swimming pools are now prescribing skincare products packed with marine and freshwater algae extracts. What was ...