Technology
Three Bio-Based Innovations Edge Closer to Market With Private–Public Funding
The United States’ Department of Energy (DOE) chose 68 different projects to fund working up to the amount of $30 million USD three projects are expected to speed up the adoption of innovative bioenergy and biofuel technologies in the marketplace,…
Mogale Meat Is Building BioBank For Cell-Cultured Antelope Meat
South African startup Mogale Meats wants to make sustainable cultivated meat a reality in the country. With its BioBank of over 500 cell samples from antelope and cattle, it could make climate-friendly meat available to consumers, and help to solve…
NREL Researches Algae and Garbage for Feedstock
According to U.S. Department of Energy analysis, over 1 billion tons of biomass could be sustainably collected and processed into biofuels by 2030 in the United States. Making this a reality depends on improvements in how biomass is grown, collected,…
Baking Compostable Packaging
Evanesce Packaging Solutions is innovating with its patented technology, where a dough made from starch, fiber, and little else is baked into compostable packaging. Company founder Douglas Horne was an elected government official in British Columbia, Canada, when he came…
House Made From 100 Biomaterials Showcased At Dutch Design Week
Biobased Creations, the eco-design studio, unveiled a showhome made out of biomaterial at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. The house contains 100 different plant-based or natural materials including wood, mycelium, seaweed, straw and vegetable fibres as well as earth and…
Researchers Engineer Bacteria To Produce Stronger Spider Silk
Spider silk is one of the strongest and most resistant materials known in nature. Now engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have designed amyloid silk hybrid proteins and produced them in engineered bacteria. The resulting fibers are stronger and…