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News and Trends 7 Oct 2016

Will SynBio replace the French Wine Industry?

Ava Winery is creating cheap, sustainable and customizable wine without grapes, yeast or fermentation. The company plans to commercialize its first product in the coming months, will they be able to steal customers from the most famous French wine companies? Ava Winery claims that 90% of tasters cannot tell its prototype apart from traditional wine. The […]

October 7, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 26 Jul 2016

Be part of the European BioEconomy! Here are 3 Dutch GreenTech Events this Year

Here are 3 events to kickstart your greentech career. As Europe works towards a bioeconomy, challenges like these offer the opportunity to get involved and make Green ideas come to life. Put together by the students from Wageningen University, here are several bioeconomy and sustainability challenges for you to solve before the end of 2016. Maybe this could be a […]

July 26, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 15 Mar 2016

French SynBio Biotech to ferment wood for Carbon-free Future

Deinove (Montpelier) and Arbiom (Evry) are two Biotechs from France which have now partnered to transform wood residues into added-value chemicals – a step closer to the ideal Bioeconomy. Deinove is one of our favourite Green Chemistry and SynBio Biotechs, developing micro-factories with their library of Deinococcus. Its projects range from using tobacco plants to making carotenoids, also with […]

March 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 2 Mar 2016

Chinese Chemical Giant moves closer to buy Swiss Syngenta for €39.5Bn

Following Monsanto’s failed second attempt to merge with Syngenta, the Chinese seems to have better luck swaying this European chemical giant. Now ChemChina has its looking to secure a multi-billion loan facility for the acquisition. Syngenta is a well known agribusiness leader in agriculture and seeds production. This Swiss agro-tech was born in 2000 after the merger […]

March 2, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 20 Jan 2016

How is Using Amoeba to Fight off Legionella in Water Tanks a White Biotech Solution?

A French Green-Biocide Specialist, Amoéba (France) is using these voracious single celled predators to tackle water-borne diseases, with added help from the Toulouse White Biotech (TWB). Toulouse White Biotechnology (TWB), a pre-industrial demonstrator, and Amoéba have been working together for nearly 18 months in order to produce a revolutionary biocide (using living amoeba). This biocide would […]

January 20, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 4 Jan 2016

Biotech and €6M to Save Orangutans? How a Yeast Alternative to Palm Oil could Stop Deforestation

Armed with a €6M Industry Grant, the Universities of Bath and York in the UK are researching how Yeast could provide a Palm-Oil alternative and save our Great Apes from deforestation… Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms – primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis. However, although hugely […]

January 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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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