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Single, Key Gene Discovery Could Streamline Production Of Biofuels

The team&#39;s results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as "Mutant alcohol dehydrogenase leads to improved ethanol tolerance in Clostridium thermocellum." The team includes Professor Lee Lynd.</p>

Aug 17, 2011

Scientific American

Harnessing Robots to Study Inaccessible Arctic

New robots&mdash;including Professor Laura Ray&#39;s "Yeti" and "Cool Robot"&mdash; undergoing field tests could expand scientists&#39; access to polar regions and improve understanding of climate change.</p>

Aug 17, 2011

Las Vegas Sun

Big Green Bus tour highlights environmental awareness

Over the past six weeks, 13 students from Dartmouth College have been driving across the country in a former Greyhound bus.

Aug 17, 2011

The New York Times

Polar Researchers Harness Robots That Thrive in the Midnight Sun

Professor Laura Ray&#39;s battery-powered Yeti and its close relative&mdash;a solar-powered version called Cool Robot&mdash;could one day expand scientists&#39; access to Earth&#39;s poles and enhance their ability to study climate change.</p>

Aug 04, 2011

Nature Materials

Material witness: Virtuosi's choice

Ulrike Wegst shows how the acoustical properties that determine a wood&#39;s suitability for a type of instrument &ndash; a xylophone bar, say, or a violin&#39;s soundboard or a clarinet body &ndash; can be classified according to just a few parameters, such as the speed of sound, the density, and the loss coefficient that describes damping.</p>

Jul 29, 2011

Mass High Tech

New Gerngross startup Arsanis raises $9.6M

Biotech startup Arsanis Inc.&mdash;another creation of Tillman Gerngross and Errik Anderson&mdash;has raised $9.6 million in a new round of funding, according to federal documents.</p>

Jul 29, 2011

Windpower Engineering

Dartmouth students study wind in remote African areas

A group of Dartmouth engineering students are using a Nomad 2 Wind Data Logger the company donated to study wind in a remote region of Tanzania.</p>

Jul 29, 2011

Xconomy

Biotech Vet Gerngross Dishes Out More Details On Latest VC-Backed Startup Arsanis

Arsanis, co-founded late last year by successful biotech entrepreneur Tillman Gerngross, is using the antibody discovery technology from another of Gerngross&rsquo;s startups, Lebanon, NH-based Adimab, to find antibody drugs that might provide a new alternative to antibiotics.</p>

Jul 29, 2011

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