Zymergen gets Lit: raises $130M in epic Series B
In California, Zymergen has raised $130 million in Series B funding led by SoftBank Group. The round also includes prior lead investor Data Collective...
Jet fuel from hooch comes closer as ASTM clears way for ethanol-to-jet, higher ATJ...
In Washington, an ASTM International Sub-Committee has voted in favor of revising specification D7566 (Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons) to...
Crazy Sexy Gut Health
Gaze at your navel for a second. Use a mirror if you like. Go ahead, it’s OK, I won’t tell anyone.
Yes, the navel, the omphalos....
The Hog’s a Hot Dog: N-Sense, Gen3Bio, Nebullam, PowerPollen, TeselaGen takin’ biotech to the...
For a number of years we have been pointing to Iowa’s intriguing combination of feedstock, infrastructure and political consensus on renewables as a potent...
The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of April 11th, 2018
The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of...
Biofuels Mandates Around the World 2018
In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates...
1 septillion reasons Dad’s CRISPR-Cas9 may already be Toast
In the rapid-fire tech and political world of 2017, a day feels like a month, a year is like a generation, and sometimes it...
The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations, 3.28.18 release
According to BIO, the global economic value today of the biobased economy – including industrial biotechnology, renewable chemicals and polymers, biofuels, enzymes and biobased...
Podesta, Putin, Trump, Gingrich, and Joule: WikiLeaks and the inside true story
If you’ve been following the Sunday news programs in the past week, or breathless reporting in the Wall Street Journal (“John Podesta and the...
Bubble Trouble: No more shampoo goo, via a nifty biobased chemical technology
If you find yourself among the 79 percent of people who “agree that they consider themselves an environmentally conscious person,” you’ve probably stayed up...