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Aquanos Algae

News and Trends 22 Oct 2015

Aquanos Algae: Israeli Start-up fixes the Global Sustainability issue in Recycling Sewage Water

Aquanos has the solution to expensive and energy intensive waste-water treatment. Having revamped the pre-existing Microalgae technique for sewage remediation to be far more efficient, the Gemini project also generates biomass products and is being trialed on a Northern Israeli kibbutz, with negotiable projections for use in the developing world. Man, we cannot get enough of […]

October 22, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 16 Oct 2015

Bavarian Facility can now grow Global Strains of Algae for Aerospace Biofuel Production

The Technology University of Munich (TU München) has built a unique global-climate simulating Algal plant on the Ludwig Bölkow Campus in Ottobrunn (Bavaria). Able to cultivate algal strains from all over the world, the research team hopes this will allow them to study and discover new types to be exploited by Biotechs for biofuel production, […]

October 16, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 2 Oct 2015

Algaemy Fashion: Use of microalgae by Berlin textile design Duo

Berlin-based designers have discovered the aesthetic appeal of manipulating microalgae to produce inks for textile printing. Inspired by work in the German biotech industry, the designer duo was recently subject of a Ted talk praising their creative efforts in founding Algaemy. After visiting the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology in Munich, Rasa Weber […]

October 2, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 4 Sep 2015

Sweden, Vegan and GMO-Free? Check out Simris Alg for your Omega-3

By running an innovative microalgae farm in Hammenhög, Sweden, Simris Alg produces a vegan and GMO-free Omega-3 fatty acid alternative to oily fish derivatives for industry. This Swedish start-up is winning all kinds of awards for their almost too-good-to-be-true approach to dietary Omega-3 oils. The Swedish entrepreneur Fredrika Gullfot (CEO) has improved upon a sustainable alternative to producing Omega-3 oils through a pioneering […]

September 4, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Aug 2015

Cambridge’s Algal Innovation Center is soon finished!

The European Energetic Algae project explores the potential of algae as an energy source. Its half a million euros Algal Innovation Center in Cambridge will soon scale up the research. The Energetic Algae project, shortly EnAlgae, aims to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels by developing biofuel technologies based on algae. “A lot of people don’t realize […]

August 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 7 Jul 2015

Microalgae on Your Plate Thanks to Algama

Nine billion people will have to be fed by 2050! Amongst the considered solutions, microalgae could be a real game-changer. Algama, a young French startup is in the starting-block, with already two products just about to go on the market. Behind Algama there is a friendship story, shared by the three co-founders, Alvyn, Gaëtan and Mathieu. […]

July 7, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 10 Jun 2015

A new ‘Fingerprinting’ Identification tool to unlock Algae potential

The world of Algae and Microalgae will be transformed thanks to the work of scientists of the Newcastle University and the Scottish Association for Marine Science. The same way people can be recognized by their fingerprints, the algae’s proteome is used as an identification to catalog them. Using this new approach instead of classical DNA markers and physical characteristics, researchers discovered […]

June 10, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 20 Jan 2015

Will Microalgaes solve the Rare Earth conflict?

The extraction of rare earths is a very expensive process, having dramatic consequences for the planet (degradation, impacts on water quality, etc.). Currently, China controls 95% of the World production of these minerals widely used in the field of new technologies and electronics. The development of new methods of sustainable recycling from waste and environmentally friendly is […]

January 20, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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