A collaboration between an agriculture company and Iowa State University has birthed a $14 million, 36,000-square-foot education and research facility in Ames. Pivot Bio, a sustainable agriculture ...

Last week the governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, signed a bill which came to him with bipartisan support from the legislature. The measure institutes tax incentives designed to accelerate the growth of ...

The Korean food products manufacturer will produce more than 100,000 metric tons of lysine at the North Central Ag Industrial Park near Fort Dodge. CJ BIO America broke ground today on their first US ...

The world's largest Geno Bio-BDO (1,4-butanediol) manufacturing plant in Eddyville, IA, has begun operations. This is the first US plant using Geno’s cutting-edge biocatalyst and fermentation ...

WASHINGTON — The production of bio-based goods in Iowa has helped improve the rural economy with jobs and revenue, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday. A report released by the Agriculture ...

AMES, Iowa – Microbes are working away in an Iowa State University laboratory to ferment biofuels from the sugar and acetate produced by rapidly heating biomass such as corn stalks and sawdust. But it ...

AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University may not be the first university you think of when it comes to marine biology. That didn’t stop Toni Sleugh from turning her Iowa State experience into exactly what ...