Ingredion and SweeGen Make Sweet Deal to Work Together Globally
In Illinois, Ingredion Incorporated, a company that converts corn, potatoes and other natural items into ingredients for biomaterial products used in food, paper, and...
Canadian Cannabis to Cross Borders to Chile
In British Columbia, Tilray received regulatory approval from Canada and Chile to send its medical cannabis to Chile. Tilray was the first company to...
Is 3-D Printed Meat a Possibility in our Lifetime? Modern Meadow Might Bring Home...
In New York, Modern Meadow is creating animal-free leather and using a recent $40 million in Series B funding to help scale it up...
Printing Organs on a 3D Printer Now Possible
In North Carolina, Dr. Anthony Atala from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has spent decades trying to print human organs and has reached...
Biomaterials with “Frankenstein Proteins” Help Heal Tissue
In North Carolina, biomedical engineers from Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis demonstrated that, by injecting an artificial protein made from a...
BASF breaking new ground with ChemCycling project
In New Jersey, BASF for the first time is making products with chemically recycled plastics, with its ChemCycling project. Chemical recycling provides an innovative...
Research Team Creates New Company, Spinthesis, for Spider Silk Biomaterial Production
In North Dakota, North Dakota State University researchers are finding ways to use spider silk as flexible metal conductors and in medical treatments. The...
Seaweed molecule found to help heal brain damage
In Australia, seaweed isn’t just healthy to eat - it can now heal damaged brain tissue using a new technique using a “hydrogel scaffold”...
Hope for fatal bone disease patients with biomaterial scaffold
In Italy, a team of researchers developed a biocompatible scaffold seeded with molecule-releasing stem cells that, when implanted in mice with a rare but...
Snug like a bug in a rug – DuPont and Unifi materials come together...
In North Carolina, textile company Unifi, Inc. is collaborating with DowDuPont Specialty Products to create new eco-friendly cold weather apparel insulation. DuPont’s Sorona polymer...