Researchers hope to conduct the first clinical trials on blind people, provided that their blindness is due to macular degenaration or similar eye diseases.SEE ARTICLE (in Spanish)
The real scientific challenge, which ultimately will mark its commercial success, will be finding a microalga capable of ensuring the profitability of production of lipids, potentially useful for producing biodiesel.SEE ARTICLE (in Spanish)
The conference offered by Prof. Olguin, entitled “Biorefinery for the production of biogas, biodiesel and hydrogen from microalgae and wastewater”, has been part of the activities planned by the European project EnerBioAlgae.SEE ARTICLE (in Spanish)
That was what has been said during the conference on algae organized recently in Madrid by the Spanish Aquaculture Observatory Foundation (Fundacion OESA) and the Association of Environmental Journalists (APIA).SEE ARTICLE (in Spanish)
These biofuels are subject to overcoming a number of scientific, environmental and economic barriers. These include the need to discover more productive strains and new methods of exploiteation, as well as cultivation techniques adjusted to the amount of water...