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Brief: Nutrition Technologies lands $20m to expand insect-protein operation across Asia

AFN Sustainable Protein

The biotech company’s production system leverages black soldier fly larvae to produce proteins for animal feed and fertilizers. Nutrition Technologies’ closed-loop system uses proprietary growth inoculants and black soldier flies to convert organic waste into proteins and oils that can enrich animal feed and bio-fertilizers.

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Demo plant produces industrial sugars from mixed household waste fractions

Envirotec Magazine

The South Wales-based plant’s commissioning marks the next phase of the innovative VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project, set up to examine the feasibility of innovative resource recovery techniques to use municipal waste as a raw material feedstock for the circular and bio-based economy.

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India’s first insect farming startup Loopworm secures $3.4m seed round led by Omnivore, WaterBridge

AFN Sustainable Protein

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 The company sources this food waste — which it likes to call “organic byproduct”– from food processors, retail food chains, and fruit markets. million in seed funding co-led by Indian agrifood VC Omnivore and WaterBridge Ventures.

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First GMO mosquitoes to be released in the Florida Keys

Grist

While there have been more than 7,300 dengue cases reported in the United States between 2010 and 2020, a majority are contracted in Asia and the Caribbean, according to the U.S. The production supervisor of biotech company Oxitec, Sofia Bastos Pinto, looks at transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquitos at the lab in Campinas, Brazil in 2014.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

Connelly comes to the growing organization by way of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), which he helped expand into the world's leading proponent of regenerative, healthy and equitable building design — managing its Green Building Challenge and Living Product Challenge before serving as VP of projects and strategic growth.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

Applying the latest technologies from biotech, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, and food science, entrepreneurs are trying to create new animal-free products that are cheaper, healthier, tastier, and more sustainable. Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

AGreenLiving

Connelly comes to the growing organization by way of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), which he helped expand into the world’s leading proponent of regenerative, healthy and equitable building design — managing its Green Building Challenge and Living Product Challenge before serving as VP of projects and strategic growth.