Business Green
APRIL 9, 2021
Back before the pandemic, around 10,000 employees arrived every day at Genentech, a biotechnology company headquartered in South San Francisco. A major US initiative is deploying behavioural insights to slash food waste at corporate canteens. If diners are willing, operators can take more radical steps.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JANUARY 28, 2020
in 2015, the progress is slow. From 2006 to 2015, Veena managed the relationships with a wide portfolio of Ceres Company Network members, including the financial services sector and the electric power sector. As of 2018, women held only 20.8% of the board seats on Russell 1000 companies. While up from 17.9%
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Grist
APRIL 17, 2021
This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. In June, Kofler and Kuzma wrote an opinion piece in The Boston Globe about the EPA approval, critiquing the agency’s regulatory system and calling for a better process for evaluating new biotechnologies.
Business Green
JUNE 22, 2022
The Innovation of the Year is always one of the most competitive categories, but this year N2S won out with the judges thanks to its pioneering work to harness advanced biotechnology to tackle the seemingly intractable problem of electronic waste and the huge environmental footprint that comes with it.
Better Ventures
JANUARY 15, 2020
Pow’s vision is to transform the landscape of bio-manufacturing by leveraging revolutionary biotechnology to enable environmentally sustainable and financially feasible continuous bio-manufacturing. What’s become clear is that we’re in the midst of a synbio and fermentation revolution.
Grist
OCTOBER 7, 2019
On Monday, the scientists studying these gene-edited cattle published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology explaining what happened. When I visited the University of California Davis in 2015, I saw a pair of these black-and-white bull calves standing and chewing in an outdoor pen, like ordinary but adorable bovines.
Business Green
AUGUST 16, 2021
We also work to improve plant biotechnologies and have contributed to proof-of-concept studies demonstrating that genome editing can be used to develop useful traits in barley, brassica and potatoes by deleting just a few letters of DNA. In 2015, for example, these ' Frankenfood headlines' dominated. It's not clear.
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