In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy announced over $79 million in funding for bioenergy research and development including biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower. There’s so much emphasis on waste residues, synthetic biology for making little critters hum, and unlocking energy by a sort of bottom-feeding on all the detritus of civilization that we’re tempted to […]
In California, Beyond Meat priced its IPO at $25 per share and raised an estimated $241 million, disclosing in an SEC filing that it expects to sell 9.63 million shares at the top end of its projected $23-$25 range. The company opens trading on NASDAQ with a $1.46 billion market valuation, based on known shares […]
Jenike & Johanson is a specialized engineering firm focused on providing clients solutions to material handling applications. They have tested over 13,000 materials and worked on over 7,500 projects and utilize a scientific approach based on your materials, not a trial and error approach. Carrie Hartford, P.E., Technical Sales Manager / Senior Project Engineer, at […]
Pennsylvania bioeconomy pioneers debuts Celltice, a “Petro-Free Breakthrough in Clean Cosmetic Formulations” From Pennsylvania, comes the news that Renmatix is introducing Celltice, its “zero-chemical self-emulsifying active,” built from cellulose and lignin, and aimed at the clean beauty movement towards petro-free, plant-based ingredients for clean cosmetics with minimalist formulations, seeking sustainable, cruelty-free ingredients that also deliver […]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the “new ideas” laboratory, was established in 1952 at the height of the Cold War to meet urgent national security needs by advancing nuclear weapons science and technology and they continue to aspire to intellectual leadership, originality, and audacity. A.J. Simon, Group Leader – Energy at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, […]
The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of May 1st. In today’s Digest, tequila-waste straws, blood-based sneakers, green burials, spider silk athletic apparel, 3D printed heart, water-filled seaweed spheres, biodegradable cooler, weighted eucalyptus blanket — these and more, ready for you now […]
Joint Genome Institute’s mission is to advance genomics in support of the U.S. Department of Energy missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. Supported by the DOE Office of Science, the JGI unites the expertise at Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. The facility provides […]
Recently from California comes the news that advanced materials wunderkind Checkerspot has closed its Series A financing for $13 million. A fascinating set of investors came in. There was no Claude Rains announcing “round up the usual suspects” on this one. Fair to say no one is announcing “Play it Again, Sam”, at Checkerspot, either. […]
INL is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s complex of national laboratories. The laboratory performs work in each of the strategic goal areas of DOE: energy, national security, science and environment. INL is the nation’s leading center for nuclear energy research and development. Chenlin Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Engineer at Idaho National Laboratory, gave […]
SCIBAC has developed a patented MERGE (Microbial Enhanced Recombinants Generated by Evolution) platform for strain improvement works by harnessing and directing a natural evolutionary process where different species can mate. Jeanette Mucha, CEO, Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder of SCIBAC, gave this illuminating overview of how they design live biotherapeutics to target antibiotic resistant disease […]
