CBD supply chain meets blockchain technology
In Colorado, CBD is going high tech with Mile High Labs Client Portal now powered by Ethereum Blockchain, allowing customers to securely and transparently...
“Straw-ghetti” inspired by Canadian’s Nonno
In British Columbia, two entrepreneurs have introduced an innovative solution to the problem of plastic waste from straws—pasta tubes you can sip a drink...
Good comes out of chocolate – Cocoa bean waste-to-fuel could help rural Ghana
In Ghana, a new green technology to generate electricity from discarded cocoa pod husks is set to benefit African farming communities currently with little...
Enzymes help turn paper sludge into biogas
In Turkey, Episome Biotech is developing a fermentation technique that digests paper waste and turns it into useful products such as biogas, biofuel, and...
Sticky stuff – Future opportunities for bio-based adhesives
In Germany, a researcher at the Fraunhofer WKI Institute for Wood Research is developing new bio-based adhesives with a focus on the renewable resource...
Fashion For Good expands with four new innovators
In the Netherlands, Fashion for Good welcomes four new innovators to their Scaling Programme: Mango Materials, Algalife, Nature Coatings and Sonovia (previously Nano Textile).
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You’ve got blood on your sneakers – no, really…world’s first blood-based sneaker
In Germany, nat-2™ Designer Sebastian Thies and Eindhoven based Designer Shahar Livne have joined forces creating the world’s first sneakers made from real blood.
In...
At the heart of the matter – first 3D heart printed using bioink
In Israel, in a major medical breakthrough, Tel Aviv University researchers have “printed” the world’s first 3D vascularized engineered heart using a patient’s own...
First spider silk fabrics to hit performance apparel industry
In Massachusetts, textile company Polartec, and biotech company Kraig Biocraft Laboratories announced plans to bring to market the first fabrics made from spider silk....
Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism
In New York, tapping into the unique nature of the molecule, Cornell engineers have created simple machines constructed of biomaterials with properties of living...