Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...

Take a look behind the scenes of a recent Reports article, entitled: ‘Rapid extraction of DNA suitable for NGS workflows from bacterial cultures using the PDQeX’, as we ask authors about PDQeX, a new ...

Canadian company Volt Lithium has developed and pilot-tested a new low-cost lithium extraction method to pull this critical battery metal out of low-concentration brines. Now it plans to turn old oil ...

Ethanol extraction has benefits and drawbacks over other types of extraction methods. But some of its pitfalls can be overcome by tweaking the type of ethanol extraction method used. For example, ...

Researchers have developed a new method to prepare bone powder for ancient DNA extraction. The method outperformed previous techniques of decontaminating ancient bones. Researchers from Max Planck ...

Cannabis extraction has grown to be a field of great importance within the modern cannabis industry. Extracts of cannabidiol (CBD) have become an enduring part of the medical cannabis space, and whole ...

Over millennia, mighty geological processes in the earth’s crust heated and compressed together pieces of life-forms that had been dead for a while. Eventually, this mulch of organic matter ...