Gigabase is the New Megabase: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to Gen9

The company manufactures custom, high-quality, synthetic DNA used by scientists to construct genes, pathways, genomes and organisms that will enable the next generation of...

Why Sustainable Chemicals? The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Capricorn Venture Partner’s Sustainable Chemistry...

Changing expectations, changing demographics in a fragile world. Those are just some of the drivers for sustainable chemistry. Performance or sustainability? Consumers demand both....

European Bioeconomy Stakeholders Manifesto: The Digest’s Special Guide

"We, representatives from large and small companies, NGOs, biomass producers, regions, and academia from all over Europe as members of the European Bioeconomy Stakeholders...

Hotties: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to engineering thermophiles for syngas-to-fuels

The US Department of Energy is supporting a Kiverdi-led project to develop microbial biocatalysts to convert syngas into monoterpenes. Syngas feedstocks are relatively inexpensive and...

What Price Biomass? The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock supply forecasting

How much biomass is there? What types, prices, when will they be available, and produced by whom, and how? These are questions that the US...

Leveraging the Power of Algae: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Algenol

Algenol is a global, industrial biotechnology company that is commercializing its patented algae technology platform for production of ethanol and other biofuels, chemicals and...

MSW as a feedstock: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Ionic Liquid Pre-treatment

It’s been the big, big problem in biomass deconstruction and cellulosic fuels — the finicky nature of biomass. We’ve learned to get past the...

What’s new? What’s happening?: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to California’s LCFS, and the RFS

In our March Madness series, we’ve been covering emerging markets and technological pathways - now we turn to two other key drivers, market access...

Knocking on the Golden Door: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris

In California, Amyris reported Q4 revenues of $32.2 million, 227% up from Q4 2015. The increase was driven by a 119% increase in product sales, primarily...

Capturing CO2: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Algae-based CO2 sequestration

The DOE completed an illuminating workshop on Carbon Capture and Sequestration with relation to algae-based technologies, and The Digest has prepared a selection of...

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Meatable hosts distinguished guests for EU’s first cultivated meat tasting

In the Netherlands, Meatable has hosted the European Union’s first cultivated meat tasting. Michelin-starred chef Ron Blaauw; Constantijn van Oranje, Prince of the Netherlands...

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