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News and Trends 19 Jul 2022

Spider silk to be produced for Kraig Biocroft Laboratories after agreement signed

Hundreds of kilograms of spider silk will be produced per month after Kraig Biocraft Laboratories joined forces with a contractor. Kraig Labs is a biotechnology company and wants to focus on the development and commercialization of spider silk and expects to achieve its target production levels as early as the first quarter of next year […]

July 19, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 13 Jul 2022

First aseptic filling line and facilities completed in Taiwan

The construction of a fully-automated aseptic filling line and facilities has been finished in Taiwan. Amaran Biotechnology Inc., a subsidiary of Taiwan’s OBI Pharma Inc., made the announcement that the new facility, a first for the country, minimizes the risks of human factors affecting the quality of pharmaceutical products, and enhances their safety. The project […]

July 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 30 Jun 2022

Evolved By Nature raises $120M for biotech silk technology

Evolved By Nature, the company creating a library of Activated Silk molecules from natural silk protein, has closed $120M in Series C financing. The round was led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), part of the C$242 billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, and Senator Investment Group, with participation from existing investors including Mousse Partners, Chanel, […]

June 30, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 29 Jun 2022

Global call for scientists and inventors to form new startup

A fourth start-up but the first of its kind sees some high-profile companies join forces in a hunt for new global research talent. AION Labs, an Israel-based alliance of AstraZeneca, Merck, Pfizer, Teva, Israel Biotech Fund and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are focusing their start-up on the ‘prediction of clinical trial outcome in biomarker-stratified cancer patient […]

June 29, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

In Depth 6 Jun 2022

Releasing the microbiome’s potential to restore European soils

For decades, soil has been treated as an everlasting food machine rather than as a fragile living thing, and it is reaching a crisis point. Understanding how the soil microbiome interacts with the environment and helping farmers embrace new sustainable methods can have a beneficial impact on the soil, and consequently, our health. After years […]

June 6, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Carlos de Rojas

News and Trends 1 Jun 2022

MiRXES opens Southeast Asia’s first industry 4.0 IVD manufacturing facility

Singapore biotech firm MiRXES Pte Ltd, which focuses on early detection cancer tests, has opened the first industry 4.0 (i4.0) in vitro diagnostic (IVD) manufacturing facility in Southeast Asia. The S$8M (US$5.8M) 15,000-square-feet facility is located at JTC MedTech Hub. The company said the site is close to the biomedical R&D community at Biopolis, pharmaceutical […]

June 1, 2022 - 3 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

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Best in Biotech 28 Mar 2022

The Top 10 Insect-Powered Biotech Companies

Insects are often seen as pests, but many species can provide new sources of food, materials, and even ways to clean up plastic waste. Here are 10 companies in this space that we think are worth watching. Many people think of insects simply as pests that eat crops and carry diseases such as malaria. While […]

March 28, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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News and Trends 23 Feb 2022

EU Bioeconomy Fund Bags €300M to Scale up Sustainability Companies

The European Circular Bioeconomy Fund has smashed its funding target by raising €300M. The aim is to help sustainability-focused biotechs scale up and usher in a ‘bio-revolution’ in Europe. As European economies grapple with the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, policymakers have pledged to prioritize sustainability in plans such as the European Green Deal. However, […]

February 23, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

In Depth 31 Jan 2022

Nature’s Painters: Making Sustainable Colors with Microbes

The production of textile dyes and food colorants can have a big environmental footprint. Biotech startups are rising to the challenge by engineering bacteria, fungi, and algae to sustainably produce natural colors. Eight years ago, University of Cambridge researcher Jim Ajioka was in Nepal helping to produce a biosensor to detect arsenic in drinking water […]

January 31, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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Top Reasons to Outsource Your Early Clinical Pipeline to a CDMO

Biotech firms partner with contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) to leverage their expertise in process development, optimization, and scale-up. In this article, we share an exclusive sneak-peek into a recent survey, which explores the main reasons why biotech companies collaborate with CDMOs at different stages of drug development. To make a new drug candidate […]

January 26, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram

In Depth 18 Jan 2022

Biomining: Turning Waste into Gold with Microbes

High-value metals make the modern world go round, but the way we extract and dispose of them is far from sustainable. Biomining could be an elegant and lucrative alternative. From the gold and silver in consumer electronics to the rare earth elements needed to power renewable energy technologies, metals underpin the transition to a high-tech, […]

January 18, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Farhan Mitha

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