Biodesign News
ASU research team working to decode TB
Grant to Advance Supercomputing for Human Health
Local teachers and students participate in Arizona’s largest summer high school bioscience internship program
Overview
The Center for Environmental Biotechnology focuses on developing microbiological systems that capture or develop renewable resources and also prevent or clean up environmental pollution. Our team combines engineering approaches with microbiology and chemistry to reclaim polluted water and generate energy from waste substances. Center researchers combine engineering with microbiology, molecular biology, and chemistry in order to gain an integrated understanding of how microbial ecosystems work and can be controlled to reclaim polluted water, generate energy from waste substances, and improve the public health and sustainability. Read More »
Center News
Biodesign’s Rittmann offers fresh perspectives on society’s energy challenge
ASU expert touts solar-based bioenergy technologies as best approach
For Bruce Rittmann, the threat of global warming also presents a significant opportunity for innovation and fresh solutions to today’s energy challenges. Rittmann sees a vast untapped potential of using microbes in service to society to meet our energy challenges.
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Anti-bacterial soap bad for the environment
ASU Biodesign Institute Researcher Rolf Halden studies
soap’s effect on environment and impact on human health
The craze over bacteria-killing soaps is likely causing significant
harm to the environment and could potentially impact human health, according
to ASU Biodesign Institute researcher Rolf Halden, PhD. Halden is a noted
expert in determining where in the environment mass-produced chemicals
wind up, their impact on health, and how to remove them from drinking water
and agricultural soils.
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