Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Biohm, a London biotech and biomanufacturing startup, has created a line of sustainable lampshades called Obscure that are made of 100% coffee chaff and orange peel. ” For these lampshades, Biohm has used a material they call Orb, or organic refuse biocompound, to combine food and agricultural bioproducts with a plant-based binder.

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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. The production supervisor of biotech company Oxitec, Sofia Bastos Pinto, looks at transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquitos at the lab in Campinas, Brazil in 2014. Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images. I don’t care.”.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

Thanks to the precipitous drop in the cost of sequencing DNA, scientists now have access to the genomes of countless organisms, providing them with an extensive library of reaction pathways needed for desired molecular outcomes. invested in 2018 according to SynBioBeta.

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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. Such crops became known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It's not clear.

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Grist

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On Monday, the scientists studying these gene-edited cattle published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology explaining what happened. Department of Agriculture program to assess the risks of biotech, her team first verified that the hornless trait was being passed down through generations of cattle. Funded by a U.S.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

environmental organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council. . Starting out as an intern while working on his thesis about organic waste management, he rose meteorically in a few short years to a position of leadership, with 600 people behind him. LinkedIn | Twitter. The potential is not chicken feed: the U.S. Hana Kajimura, 28.

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