Strategic Intent: Nuu’s 2016 8-Slide Guide to P&G
This season, The Digest is hosting the Strategic Intent webinar series, looking at the plans, progress and future milestones of strategic stakeholders in the Advanced Bioeconomy.
In...
Brazil Bilateral: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to US-Brazil R&D in thermochemical bio conversion
The Brazil Bilateral is a co-operative R&D effort between Brazil's Petrobras and the US National renewable Energy Laboratory. It aims to demonstrate technical and...
Plug-and-play: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Enzyme Engineering and Optimization
The US Department of Energy is supporting a project led by Michael Himmell at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop technology to meet...
3D printable resin: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to melt-stable engineered lignin thermoplastic
The DOE is supporting an Oak Ridge-led project to produce and commercialize lignin-derived, industrial-grade composites with properties including 3D printability, rivaling current petroleum-derived alternatives....
Getting a Loan Guarantee: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the USDA 9003 Loan...
The 2014 Farm Bill provides for support of Advanced Biofuels, Renewable Chemicals, and Biobased Product Manufacturing by providing loan guarantees for up to $250 million. USDA has...
The Pitch: The Digest 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to presenting biotechnology scale-up during fundraising
Warner Advisors LLC is a consulting firm focused on delivering commercialization assistance for emerging technology clients in biofuels, biochemicals and food — focus is...
The RVO is here: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Guide Slide to the EPA’s Proposed Renewable...
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) renewable volume obligations (RVOs) for 2018. The agency proposed a total...
New route to FDCA: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to MetGen’s chemo-enzymatic process
This week, news arrived from MetGen that they have developed a novel chemo-enzymatic process that leads to oxidized forms of 5-HMF. They report that...
All Your Acetogen Are Belong to Us: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to acetone...
Can it be done? That is, development of a sustainable green chemistry platform for production of acetone and downstream drop-in fuel and commodity products...
Programming cells to do amazing stuff: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Asimov
Asimov has spun out of MIT aimed at detecting and responding to customer needs in applying biocircuit design to real-world opportunities.
“It is literally a...