DuPont Nutrition and Health sells DuPont Diagnostics to Hygiena
In California, Hygiena bought the DuPont Diagnostics food safety diagnostics business from DuPont Nutrition and Health. The acquisition includes all of DuPont Diagnostics business assets,...
Spanish algae consortium targets food, pigments
In Spain, a consortium has been formed with the aim of developing food compounds and pigments from algae.
Dubbed “Algae for a Healthy World,” the...
DuPont receives Gates Foundation grant for protein-based biologic medicine development
In Delaware, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided a grant to DuPont Industrial Biosciences to create new production systems to enable affordable, protein-based...
Copia Agro & Food announces a new $50 million agriculture and food investment fund
In Israel, the Copia Agro & Food fund announced it is raising $50 million to expand its investments in agricultural and food projects developed...
FUEL ships hyper-personalized, nutritionally-optimized meals anywhere in the continental U.S.
In California, FUEL expanded shipping of scientifically optimized meals to the contiguous 48 states from their current western states market. FUEL prepares hyper-personalized, nutritionally-optimized meals...
BlueRock Therapeutics launches with $225 million from Bayer and Versant Ventures
In Canada, Bayer and Versant Ventures launched BlueRock Therapeutics with a $225 million investment to develop curative therapies based on the latest stem cell...
NIH awards $2.9 million for New York diabetes translation research center
In New York, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System researchers received a five-year, $2.9-million grant from the National Institutes of Health...
Nuts lower your risk of serious health issues if you eat a handful every...
In London, a study of over 800,000 patients from around the world showed that eating at least 20 grams of nuts per day led...
Tyson launches $150 million venture capital fund for breakthrough food technologies
In Arkansas, Tyson Foods, Inc. launched a $150 million venture capital fund called Tyson New Ventures LLC to invest in companies that are developing...
Nestlé invents a new sugar crystal so that less tastes like more
In Switzerland, Nestlé scientists created a novel structural form for sugar that can be produced using all natural ingredients. At a microscopic level, the change...