Graduate student Gabriel Rodriguez (left) and Shota Atsumi, assistant professor of chemistry, test the scent of a bacterial culture engineered to make sweet-smelling esters. Fresh banana, a waft of ...

Vegetable ester-based drilling fluids may satisfy demanding technical criteria and strict environmental standards for offshore work. The rising world energy demand has led to exploration for oil and ...

Fresh banana, a waft of flowers, blueberry: the scents in some labs are a little sweeter than most. Researchers are engineering bacteria to make esters -- molecules widely used as scents and ...

The intricate world of scotch whisky is a symphony of flavors, with each note carefully crafted through the whisky-making ...

Fresh banana, a waft of flowers, blueberry: the scents in Shota Atsumi's laboratory in the UC Davis Department of Chemistry are a little sweeter than most. That's because Atsumi and his team are ...

Dublin, Oct. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The carboxylic acid-based ester market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5% during the forecast ...

Natural flavors noted among the ingredients on food packages we pick up at the grocery store tend to be the most expensive items on the list. That’s a consequence of the scarcity of natural flavor ...

Glancing back to the 1970s, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were the cooling liquids of choice for transformers in locations where the possibility of fire was high. Then it happened: PCBs were ...