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.
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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...
Scottish art festival features E. coli influenced by sound, portraits made from skin oil
In Edinburgh, a festival is exploring the relationship between art and science, with many exhibitions highlighting the potential for new materials that reduce environmental...
Nothing goes to waste! Roadkill turned into biofuel
In the United Kingdom, pet and animal lovers are upset that their dead pets are being rendered down to fat and converted into biodiesel...
Wheat straw transformed into bio-isobutene – precursor for chemicals
In California, the EU-funded OPTISOCHEM project researchers have made strides in converting wheat residues, an agricultural waste, into valuable bio-isobutene, or bio-IBN which is...
100% sunflower waste finds use in bioproducts and design
In the Netherlands, designer Thomas Vailly worked with scientists from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques Et Technologiques (ENSIACET) laboratory to turn...
From UCO to sunflowers and hemp oil, Pacific Biodiesel focuses on the future
In Hawaii, Pacific Biodiesel has moved beyond its origins of biodiesel made from used cooking oil to sourcing sustainable crops like jatropha, safflower, kukui,...
BASF launches bioactives from responsible beauty program
In Germany, BASF’s Care Creations launched three new active ingredients derived from its Rambutan Program, a socially and environmentally responsible supply chain for sustainable...