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News and Trends 18 Jul 2022

Ginkgo Bioworks to collaborate with Sumitomo Chemical on animal-free personal care ingredient

Cell programming company Ginkgo Bioworks has launched a new cell programming project as part of a broader collaboration with Japanese company Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. Through the partnership, Sumitomo Chemical…

July 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Jul 2022

Symrise Cosmetic Ingredients partners with evoxx technologies

Symrise Cosmetic Ingredients has entered into a strategic partnership with German industrial biotech company evoxx technologies. The companies aim to develop biotechnological processes for ingredients used in beauty applications. The…

July 1, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Opinion 16 May 2022

CRISPR Can Help The Switch To Sustainable Cosmetics

The cosmetics industry is looking for greener ingredients as consumers demand more sustainable products. According to Jon Kratochvil at ERS Genomics, which licenses out patents belonging to the gene editing…

May 16, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

More News! 18 Oct 2018

Phase III Triumph for Topical Hormonal Acne Treatment

The Italian biotech Cassiopea reports good news for acne sufferers. Its hormonal anti-acne treatment Winlevi significantly helped to reduce acne in two Phase III trials. Winlevi, when applied to the…

October 18, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 24 Oct 2017

French Biotech‘s Bacterial Product is Ready to Enter the Anti-Aging Skincare Market

Montpellier-based Deinove has developed a bacterial anti-aging skincare product, which has shown its safety and healing capacity in studies so far. Deinove specializes in high-value compounds from rare bacteria, in…

October 24, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 31 Mar 2017

French Synbio Company gets ready to break into Cosmetics

After biofuels and carotenoids, Deinove is now moving forward on the cosmetics front. Its engineered microbes can produce a number of interesting chemicals for skin care, and Deinove plans to…

March 31, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 7 Oct 2016

Meet the ‘Haut-Couturiers’ of Bioengineering

It's time to ride the slopes and land in the French alpine capital, Grenoble, to meet our Biotech of the week, BGene Genetics. This start-up is changing the bug factory…

October 7, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

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News and Trends 9 Jun 2016

Biotech, France and L’Oréal Team up for World First Biofuel Plant using Beets

The Investissements d’Avenir programme (a French government initiative) is providing €9M to both Global Bioenergies and IBN-One, as part of an project involving Cristal Union (the agro-business for Beet production) and…

June 9, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 14 Jan 2016

World First: Scotland and Norway have Founded a Unique Oceanic Algae Plant

GlycoMar (Scotland) and MicroA (Norway) are Algae specialists in the Biotech industry which have now funded a joint Venture, Prasinotech, which is the first in the world to refine the…

January 14, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 12 Nov 2015

The Dermatology People in Denmark are Buying Out Japanese Skin Blockbusters

Leo Pharma has entered an Asset Purchasing Agreement of €675M for the Japanese Derma business of Astellas in Tokyo, to include their products for eczema, acne and their dermatitis blockbuster…

November 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 19 Oct 2015

Synbio Perfumery: Making Smells and Flavors with Microbes

Isobionics is a biotech from the Netherlands that specializes in synthetic bio-production of natural essential oils and flavorings for use in the food, perfume and detergent industry. On the other…

October 19, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 17 Jun 2015

Deinove to challenge the Carotenoid Business

Carotenoids are powerfull antioxidants and essential in the production of vitamin A. The French synthetic biology biotech Deinove signed an agreement with the Canadian company POS Bio-Sciences with the hope of…

June 17, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 11 Jun 2015

Cosmo’s dermatology spin-out Cassiopea IPOes before the end of its Phase III

Cassiopea, Cosmo Pharmaceutical’s spin-out, will be listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange. Cosmo Pharmaceutical plans to reduce its current 97% shareholding to below the 50% bar. The majority shareholder will…

June 11, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 26 May 2015

L’Oreal is Bioprinting Human Skin to Stop Animal Testing

A huge improvement could shake the cosmetic testing field very soon. L’Oreal, the French world leader in beauty cosmetics, mostly known for its make-up and hair care products, has just started…

May 26, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 1 May 2015

Galderma steps into the Nutraceutical Market

Galderma entered the functional food market thanks to its acquisition of certain assets of Innéov Group. The company, a global leader committed to dermatology and skin health, is fully-owned by Nestlé…

May 1, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Apr 2015

Histalim, already 10 years committed to Histology

In the prestigious Fabre Museum of Montpelier (France), Thursday, April 9, 2015, Histalim organized for his birthday, an afternoon of table speeches around bioservices and also an evening with contemporary…

April 16, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

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News and Trends 24 Sep 2014

Natural Cosmetics thanks to Enzymes?

A 7 million euros European-funded project has been launched with the intention of replacing chemical cosmetic production techniques with eco-friendly alternatives. This is the OPTIBIOCAT project which wants to provide…

September 24, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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