Green Chemicals Blog
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EPA Calls for the 21st Presidential Green Chemistry Award Nominations
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now accepting entries for nominations for its 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards for companies or institutions that have developed a process or product that better protects public health and the environment. Since the start…
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EUROPE’S LEADING BIOECONOMY CLUSTERS NOW WORKING TOGETHER AS 3BI
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3BI Intercluster, a new strategic European partnership joining the leading bioeconomy clusters in the Netherlands, France, the UK and Germany, was recently launched to support European companies in R&D and deployment of novel high-tech approaches to the conversion of biomass…
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North Face develops coat from biotech silk
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Coming from the recent SynBioBeta conference, I may not be able to understand some of the technicalities of gene modification but I do understand the potential economics on some of these technologies being churned out of the lab. One of…
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Dyadic sells enzyme assets to DuPont
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The blog is trying to catch up to several big news announced earlier this month and one of them is DuPont Industrial Biosciences’ purchase of Dyadic International’s enzyme and technology assets including its C1 platform, a fungal expression technology for…
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Spotlight: Imperial College London Bio activities
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The blog had the pleasure of speaking with Imperial College London’s Professor Richard Ian Kitney (Chairman of Institute of Systems & Synthetic Biology as well as Co-director EPSRC Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation) at the recent SynBioBeta conference in…
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Global bioplastics capacities to grow despite low oil price
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The European Bioplastics‘ annual market data update, compiled in cooperation with the research institutes IfBB – Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, Germany) and nova Institute (Hürth, Germany), reported continued increase in global bioplastics…
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Paris tragedy strikes young bio-packaging designer
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No words can express the deep sadness that everybody feels with the recent tragedy in Paris and the blog is sending its condolence to those who have been directly affected. It is also very sad to hear that one of those…