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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 will leverage Ginkgo’s codebase and expertise in organism engineering to produce molecules in a sustainable way for products across a broad range of industries. The […]

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 companies said as a result, consumers will be able to purchase beauty products with effective and responsible ingredients. Symrise said consumers today consider the ethical […]

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 pioneers Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR-Cas9 could one day meet the demand for alternatives. The global cosmetics industry is worth more than €480B ($500B), […]

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 skin, cleared the acne in more than twice as many participants with moderate or severe acne as placebo. The treatment also showed good safety results […]

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 particular, the Deinococcus genus. It has announced that it will launch its first cosmetic product into the anti-aging skincare market in 2018, which is based on a […]

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 bring them to market until the end of 2018. Deinove is a key synbio biotech in France and has found a wide range of applications for […]

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 sector! BGene has developed a method to edit the chromosomes of a bug to produce proteins rather than inserting a plasmid, and this proprietary technology […]

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 L’Oréal (the cosmetics Giant). Together, they will develop the first commercial plant producing bio-sourced isobutene worldwide. Broken down into €5.7M for Global Bioenergies; €3.3M for IBN-One, the […]

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 production of polysaccharides from microalgae. GlycoMar is based at the European Centre for Marine Biotechnology, near Oban (Scotland), and is a specialist biotech developing new […]

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 Protopic. Leo Pharma, which is headquartered in Copenhagen (Denmark), has therapeutic areas beyond the cosmetic, with other areas of research including skin cancer (melanoma) and […]

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 hand, Evolva, from Basel, are estimated to produce up to $500M worth of synthetic vanilla essence for the industry each year. Using bacteria and yeast […]

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 initiating a major breakthrough to the carotenoid market. Produced by all green plants, algae, some fungi and cyanobacteria, carotenoid is a group of more than 600 known […]

June 17, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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