Biodiesel may be a green fuel, but its production has a waste problem. Every year, producers of the alternative fuel create over a million tons of glycerol worldwide, much of which goes to waste.

Unilever has been granted a patent for a new compound called nicotinic acid glycerol ester (NAE), which can be used in topical personal care compositions. The compound is capable of modulating or ...

New research demonstrates how glycerol carbonate, a biosourced industrial additive, can be produced in record time using CO2 and a by-product of the cooking oil recycling industry. The process relies ...

The typical American diet often lacks omega-3 fatty acids despite clinical research that shows their potential human health benefits. Now researchers have found a way to grow these compounds using a ...

In seven patients with glycogenoses of the liver the effects of glycerol administered by mouth on levels of glucose and of lactate, together with the response to epinephrine or glucagon, were ...