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We Three Kings of the Bioeconomy Are: Novozymes & Green Plains, Arzeda & BP, and Inscripta & what appears to be the entire investing universe announce massive deals to anchor a big bioeconomy Christmas

We Three Kings of the Bioeconomy Are: Novozymes & Green Plains, Arzeda & BP, and Inscripta & what appears to be the entire investing universe announce massive deals to anchor a big bioeconomy Christmas

December 16, 2019 |

Novozymes & Green Plains, Arzeda & BP, and Inscripta & a bunch of investors new and returning — three transformative market shifts this week of epic proportion. Grabbing the dollar headlines has to be Inscripta’s eye-watering $125 million Series D cap raise, which will accelerate applications expansion and commercialization of the company’s revolutionary Onyx Digital […]

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Show Me The Money!: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to 1st Cash Cover Crop for the Midwest

Show Me The Money!: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to 1st Cash Cover Crop for the Midwest

December 16, 2019 |

Cover crops are not all the same – just ask Dr. Tim Ulmasov, CTO of CoverCress who shared this presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco to introduce the first cash cover crop for the Midwest. It’s similar to canola, offers farmers a $50-70/acre cash margin, pluscover crop benefit over the winter, it is a […]

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Conversion Technologies: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to BETO’s Carbon-Based Fuels and Co-Products

Conversion Technologies: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to BETO’s Carbon-Based Fuels and Co-Products

December 16, 2019 |

Why is working with biomass so challenging? Jonathan Male, Director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) set out to answer that question at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco. Check out his illuminating presentation on how BETO is exploring various strategies to reduce the price of biofuels toward $2/GGE, the latest on […]

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Sustainable Seafood: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Finless Foods

Sustainable Seafood: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Finless Foods

December 15, 2019 |

Cultured carp – yes, fish made in a lab – is not that crazy. After all, we have the Impossible Burger, Beyond Burger and other meat alternatives, and there’s the leather without the cow too, so why not fish without the fish? Check out this slide guide from ABLC NEXT in San Francisco to find […]

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Starting with the End in Mind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Codexis’s Enzymes and Scalable Proteins

Starting with the End in Mind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Codexis’s Enzymes and Scalable Proteins

December 15, 2019 |

Codexis has reimagined the degree, and speed, of transformation of protein performance possible through protein engineering – Better libraries, better (bigger) data and a highly integrated workflow that leads to rapid, and very large, performance improvements. They are also engineering an ultra-stable enzyme for carbon capture. Rob Wilson, PhD, SVP of Business Operations and GM […]

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Competitive Edge: Infra XTL Technology Ltd.

Competitive Edge: Infra XTL Technology Ltd.

December 12, 2019 |

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Infra started 10 years ago with the goal to build a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst that will produce no waxes. This […]

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Using CARB’s Framework: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to the Clean Fuels Standard in Washington State

Using CARB’s Framework: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to the Clean Fuels Standard in Washington State

December 12, 2019 |

The California Air Resources Board’s framework is proving to be an example to follow for states like Washington. But there are resource gaps, according to Tim Zenk from Molecule, a public affairs and advocacy group. Check out this slide guide for the latest on the Clean Fuels Standard HB 1110 bill status, and more.

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Simplifying Biology for Biochemicals: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to DMC’s Metabolic Engineering Tech

Simplifying Biology for Biochemicals: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to DMC’s Metabolic Engineering Tech

December 12, 2019 |

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery Digital biology, synthetic biology and metabolic engineering are not all the same – just ask Matt Lipscomb, CEO and Founder of DMC who shared this presentation at ABLC NEXT in San […]

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Britain, Brexit and the Bioeconomy: It’s going to be about Scoxit, too

Britain, Brexit and the Bioeconomy: It’s going to be about Scoxit, too

December 12, 2019 |

If the exit polls and early results hold up, the Conservative Party will have won a landslide victory in the 2019 UK General Election, Brexit is on and it will happen in the next 60 days. The size of the win of the Scottish National Party, exit polls have them at a highwater-mark of around […]

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Corpse to compost, Jose Cuervo’s agave to straws, Ford’s coffee waste parts, Reebok biokicks, cellulose optical fibers, catalysts algorithms, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 12th

Corpse to compost, Jose Cuervo’s agave to straws, Ford’s coffee waste parts, Reebok biokicks, cellulose optical fibers, catalysts algorithms, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 12th

December 11, 2019 |

From Jose Cuervo’s new project to convert agave byproduct into biodegradable straws to death (corpse to compost), this week’s Top 10 Innovations are a hoot to boot. Car maker Ford is using McDonald’s coffee waste in car parts, and a New Zealand airline is using edible coffee cups made from biscotti to reduce in-light service […]

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