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Accenture and NexantECA, an energy and chemicals advisory company, estimate that the chemicals industry needs to cut annual GHG emissions ...

The first plant-based plastics entered the market in the eighties. Four decades on and only one percent of the world’s ...

Detergents are a section of the chemical industry where bio-substitutes for petrochemicals are being adopted at a rapid rate. Europe ...

Fur has proven to be among the most difficult textiles to imitate synthetically. Now, Dutch company Geneus Biotech has grown ...

It was in the late eighties that scientists first envisaged a merger between 3D printing and tissue engineering. At their ...

In 2010, California-based KZO Sea Farms received a permit for developing an offshore mariculture facility in US federal waters. Recently, ...

Biosensors are instruments that detect the presence of specific molecules in just about any medium, even at trace concentrations. This ...

Glues may make up a relatively small proportion of individual products. Yet with around 14.7 million tonnes produced globally each ...

Bioreactors are vessels where microorganisms, stem cells, or specialised cells are cultivated into functional materials. The oldest and simplest examples ...

In 2020, Swedish startup Amferia received $650, 000 to commercialise a bacteria-killing hydrogel that could be used as wound patches, ...