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Building a National Network of Composite Pipes to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The U.S. would need 65,000 miles of pipeline to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Here’s how the Biden Administration can expanding the use of low-emission, composite materials to support a net-zero vision.

05.22.23 | 9 min read
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A “Focused Research Organization” to Reduce Antibiotic Resistance In Aquaculture

Research and engineering to reverse antibiotic resistance in aquatic bacteria, through the application of a well-validated CRISPR-based genetic system, can help catalyze safer, more sustainable land-based aquaculture as a nutritious and affordable food source.

05.20.23 | 4 min read
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A “Focused Research Organization” to Develop RNA Sequencing Technologies

RNA therapeutics are gaining popularity since they are cheap and easy to make, but sequencing technologies today rely on converting RNA back to cDNA, which collapses information on the more than 150 different chemically modified bases for RNA into just four bases.

05.19.23 | 3 min read
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A “Focused Research Organization” to Design and Synthesize Spiroligomer Catalysts

Humanity needs catalysts to create fuel, feedstocks to make materials, and fertilizers to grow food. Catalysts allow us to arrange atoms into the molecules we need with extremely high selectivity, cleanliness, and low energy input.

05.19.23 | 3 min read
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A “Focused Research Organization” to Characterize Antibodies Through Open Science

Many antibodies that scientists purchase from commercial manufacturers to conduct their research do not work as advertised, because most have never been validated properly.

05.19.23 | 4 min read
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A “Focused Research Organization” to Quantify Ocean Carbon

The [C]Worthy Project will create first-of-its-kind, open-source software infrastructure for ocean carbon measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) to help drive the nascent marine-based carbon dioxide removal market.

05.18.23 | 3 min read
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A “Focused Research Organization” to Build the Foodome Project for the Future of Nutrition

Our current knowledge of the biochemical compounds in food is incredibly limited, but existing databases of MassSpec scans contain massive amounts of untapped, unannotated information about food ingredients.

05.17.23 | 4 min read
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Accelerating Biomanufacturing and Producing Cost-Effective Amino Acids through a Grand Challenge

Amino acids are essential but costly inputs for large-scale bioproduction. Federal funding can incentivize scalable production, cutting these costs in half.

05.15.23 | 14 min read
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Using Effective Communication To Bridge the Gap Between Wildfire Science and Policy

In an environment where fire seasons are turning to fire years, and summer skies across North America are filled with wildfire smoke from as far away as another coast, the need for scientifically accurate wildland fire policy has never been greater.   Over the past several months, COMPASS Science Communication has been working in collaboration with […]

04.24.23 | 5 min read
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Wildland Fire Policy Recommendations

The U.S. response to wildland fire can be better informed by science, evidence, and Indigenous perspectives.

04.24.23 | 62 min read
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FAS Unveils 23 Actionable Recommendations for Improving Wildland Fire Policy

FAS unveils 23 actionable recommendations aimed at improving woodland fire policy

04.19.23 | 2 min read
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Three Insights From the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference

Here are industry leaders’ top three takeaways from this year’s Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference.

04.04.23 | 4 min read
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