Researchers at ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have made a scientific advance by using a natural substance from fungi, called chitin, to create hydrogels that are both significantly stronger and tougher.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers developed a high-throughput microbial QTL mapping platform that combines synthetic biology, AI, automation and gene editing to identify the genetic basis of complex bacterial traits up to 10 times faster than pr
Mengjun Shu, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, uses big data, statistical modeling and artificial intelligence to study how trees respond to environmental stress and identify traits that can improve biomass crops such as poplar.
Melissa Cregger discusses how ORNL’s Center for Bioenergy Innovation is developing fast-growing, resilient bioenergy crops such as poplar, switchgrass, pine, and eucalyptus to support sustainable production of fuels, chemicals, and materials.
ORNL researchers developed tSAGE, a tool that rapidly engineers heat-loving microbes for industrial biotechnology. The platform can build and test hundreds of microbial strains in weeks instead of months or years.
Colorado-based Gevo has licensed two ORNL catalyst technologies to advance pilot-scale production and commercialization of sustainable aviation fuel under a three-year cooperative research agreement supported by DOE.
Jennifer Morrell-Falvey, a senior staff scientist at ORNL, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher
A new biosensor developed at ORNL detects the emerging presence of fungus on plants at the molecular level, paving the way for next-generation crop protection and the development of stress-tolerant plants.
From the discovery of a mutant mouse to the frontier of quantum computing and new molecular frameworks, ORNL research connects to three of the 2025 Nobel Prizes.
Rebecca Wilkes, an ORNL synthetic biologist and UT-ORII Fellow, engineers microbes to convert biomass and waste into valuable chemicals. Her work aims to advance efficient biomanufacturing and support a domestic bioeconomy.