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News and Trends 15 Jan 2016

Faces of BioArt: Eduardo Kac and His Transgenic Organisms

Last week I talked about my experience meeting Susanna Hertrich at the Art Laboratory Berlin, and now I move to Eduardo Kac, who actually coined the term ‘BioArt’. As a US-Brazilian from Rio, Eduardo has developed a global reputation as a ‘Transgenic Artist‘. One of Eduardo Kac‘s most famous pieces, ‘Genesis‘ (1999), was a transgenic […]

January 15, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 6 Jan 2016

Audi Strengthens Collaboration with French Biotech for the Future of Automotive Biofuels

Audi is entering a renewed collaboration agreement with French Global Bioenergies to further broaden the flexibility of their biofuels technology for Greener Cars. The Paris based Global Bioenergies approach to second-generation isobutene production (using non-edible sources of biomass – e.g. wood chips) has turned out to be hugely popular, earning a €1.4M investment back in […]

January 6, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 3 Dec 2015

History of Biotech: How the “First” Biotech Patent Generated Millions

The Cohen-Boyer patents were now issued 35 years ago at Stanford University… so what were they and how did they shape the Modern Biotechnology Field? Recombinant DNA (rDNA) products provided a new technology platform for a range of industries, resulting in over US$35 billion in sales for an estimated 2,442 new products. After Genentech was […]

December 3, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Marie Godar

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News and Trends 2 Dec 2015

How Can BioArt Help Geneticists and the Biotech Field?

BioArt is a hot interdisciplinary sub-genre springing up in Galleries all over Europe. Here is a summary of a review on the movements increasing relevance to the Biotech Industry… In part thanks to the Biohacking and DIY Biotech movement, accessibility to lab equipment, 3D-printers, and the popularity of the Synthetic Biology iGEM Competition, artists around […]

December 2, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 26 Nov 2015

A €1.3M Start-Up is Engineering Baker’s Yeast to Make Green House Gases Useful

Culturing yeast cells to absorb CO2 could be the Green way forward for this new French Start-up. As a spin off Toulouse White Biotechnologies (TWB) project, the seed investor in its €1.3M Green Seed Fund is the lead French VC Sofinnova. TWB, a pre-industrial demonstrator in the field of industrial biotechnology managed by INRA (the […]

November 26, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 23 Nov 2015

Making Propane From Gut-Bacteria: A UK-Finland Team Want to Say Ciao to Fracking

Five genes introduced in the bacterial genome of E.coli can modify its metabolism to synthesise propane, which can be then converted to liquified petroleum gas (LPG) as an alternative source of fuel. Escherichia coli is a facultative anaerobe of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine. An international team of researchers […]

November 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 10 Nov 2015

What the FUGT? We tried the Algae Bar Beer for the TransArt Fest in Copenhagen!

We went to the TransArt Festival at the stunning ‘Dome of Visions‘ in Copenhagen on Friday. There, we met loads of scientists and members of the public who were just as entranced as us by the home-grown BioArt. After our blogger Julie covered the Fab Foundation’s ‘Biohacking’ movement last Monday, I was really intrigued by […]

November 10, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 3 Nov 2015

Potato Plastics! Biodegradable Plastics from Potato Waste

An Italian company specialized in the production of environmentally sustainable materials has created its Minverv PHAs. These are ‘green’ biopolymers with the same thermo-mechanical properties of the substances that make up the traditional plastics, but are instead 100% biodegradable. The goal was to create a plastic that does not pollute the environment and Bio-On, company […]

November 3, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 2 Nov 2015

A Glimpse into the DIY Biotech Movement: Biohacking, Vegan Cheese, Algae Beer and Bacterial Art!

Fab Labs have become hugely fashionable since 2010… But what about Bio Fab Labs? Have you ever thought about sharing your RNA or DNA amplification equipment? It can be a massive help for entrepreneurs or students, and Bio Fab Labs are starting to emerge in backyards across the world for Education, Innovation and even creative SynBio art. This new era of DIY […]

November 2, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

Biofuels

News and Trends 20 Oct 2015

Scaling-up Biofuels: The Challenges of Giant Bioreactors

Global Bioenergies from France is building a proto-plant for Isobutene production in Germany, with partnerships with car manufacturer Audi. Now their plant will receive a 5,000 Litre fermentation tank, after overcoming the challenging process of scaling-up second generation biofuel production. Global Bioenergies’ return to first generation biofuel production has already been discussed as a bit […]

October 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 19 Oct 2015

Synbio Perfumery: Making Smells and Flavors with Microbes

Isobionics is a biotech from the Netherlands that specializes in synthetic bio-production of natural essential oils and flavorings for use in the food, perfume and detergent industry. On the other hand, Evolva, from Basel, are estimated to produce up to $500M worth of synthetic vanilla essence for the industry each year. Using bacteria and yeast […]

October 19, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 12 Oct 2015

A Sweet idea from Napoli; An Italian start-up will renovate the Artificial Sweetener market

Monellin chain B is an artificial sweetener initially mistaken for a carbohydrate. It has since been established to actually be a natural protein based sweetner which is fairly unstable. iSweetch from the University of Naples has used E. Coli to engineer a more stable version of the protein to revolutionize the artificial sweetner industry. Monellin […]

October 12, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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