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Start-up providing sustainable Omega-3 secures £2.3m funding

Envirotec Magazine

“Our commercial demonstrator plant, due to be completed early in 2023, will help us improve food security globally, while our research department continues to drive the development of exciting, commercially viable biotech innovations.”.

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What Zymergen’s IPO says about 'biofacturing' and green chemistry

GreenBiz

To meet demand, the company "reverse engineered" the product using petroleum-based chemicals, according to a Zymergen spokesperson. In contrast, "synthetic biotech allows you to go right to the final chemical transformation," Tickner said. As of now, the film, Hyaline, is made with 100 percent petroleum-based chemicals.

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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 It wants to enter the market in 18 months, selling not only in India but the US and European markets where it expects to find higher demand — and prices. There has to be a significant health or nutrition benefit that would push this into the human market.”

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Algae is Poised to Become a Mainstream Food Ingredient if Supply Can Keep Up With Demand

AFN Sustainable Protein

Dahl is President and CEO of ZIVO Bioscience , a ag biotech R&D company engaged in the commercialization of nutritional and medicinal products derived from proprietary algal strains. Initially, this may seem to be an upmarket trend, but demand for high-quality nutrition is likely to permeate most price and product strata.

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Algae is Poised to Become a Mainstream Food Ingredient if Supply Can Keep Up With Demand

AFN Sustainable Protein

Dahl is President and CEO of ZIVO Bioscience , a ag biotech R&D company engaged in the commercialization of nutritional and medicinal products derived from proprietary algal strains. Initially, this may seem to be an upmarket trend, but demand for high-quality nutrition is likely to permeate most price and product strata.

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We Are All Going Crazy

Better Ventures

How technology will enable a new wave of startup companies to make tele-behavioral health better than in-person therapy There’s an old story in technology circles about how at the dawn of television, people didn’t know what to do with it, so they basically put a radio show on television. And so it is with tele-behavioral health?—?you

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Cargill pumps funding into meat & fish alternatives

AFN Sustainable Protein

Keeping up with demand. The investment is timely as demand for pea protein-based products is growing rapidly with r eports that supply of the processed ingredient can’t keep u p with demand. ” The biotech company focuses on animal health and nutrition, and was established in 2012.

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