The progamming of living things: What if you could put a brain inside a...
It would revolutionize medicine. But also, agriculture — as in plant cells that sense and respond to conditions like drought, predators, disease or even...
5 Crazy Ways to Use Algae That Turn Out to Be Not So Crazy
Algae chocolate, algae ink, algae protein powder, algae as a solar technology and algae as a diversification strategy for tourist economies?
Algae investors and project...
The Silver in Silva: The Story of Steeper Energy and SGF’s’s $59M advanced biofuels...
This week we reported that Steeper Energy is partnering with Silva Green Fuel, a Norwegian-Swedish joint venture, to construct a $59M industrial scale demonstration plant...
Affordable, green hydrogen — it is here, near, or nowhere in sight (again)?
News arrives from Israel’s Technion Institute that they have developed a stable catalyst that can split water at extravagantly low energy-levels - and haven’t...
On value, and values: Fairness, the disadvantaged, and California’s renewables policy
Back in the 1940s when my father and his folks lived on Garcia Avenue in San Francisco, in a part of town the upwardly...
Last Train to Emeryville: The DigiBio value engine is leavin’ the station, are you...
Tie-ins for Zymergen, Radiant Genomics, DMC, Capricorn Venture Partners, Syngenta and CHS demonstrate the firepower and scope of digital biology.
Today, products made via traditional...
Fiberight: A deep-dive into the trash to find the cash
This week we reported that Fiberight has secured $70 million for a municipal solid waste center that should be in operation by this May....
LanzaTech, Novozymes, Amyris, DSM, Enerkem, POET, BASF, Genomatica and Braskem take early Hot 50...
LanzaTech, Novozymes, Amyris, DSM, Enerkem, POET, BASF, Genomatica and Braskem have taken the lead in early voting in the 50 Hottest Companies in the...
Top 10 Bioeconomy Predictions for 2018
A mere “The Year in Rewind” as we sail into 2018? Not the good ship Digest! Instead, we dust off our crystal ball and offer our...
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...