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Microvi bags $1.5m grant
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Microvi Biotechnologies has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to demonstrate at scale a novel technology for the treatment of 1,4 dioxane in water. Microvi’s MB-DX™ technology uses 1,4-Dioxane degrading microbes….
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Applications open for Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst
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Applications are now open for the UK-based Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst supported by BBSRC, the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The first IB Catalyst call will fund support for major integrated research and…
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WBM USA 2013: Day 1
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Day 1 Twitter coverage of the World Bio Markets USA 2013 Conference held in San Francisco on October 29-30
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Verdezyne gets Malaysia’s BioNexus status
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Verdezyne has been awarded “BioNexus” status by Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp), an agency under the purview of the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). As part of its collaboration with BiotechCorp, Verdezyne expects to open a bio-based chemical…
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US, UK researchers bag grant for fertilizer alternative
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Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.K.’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to begin a program of novel…
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Evonik’s bio-polyamides game
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Evonik wants to give some insight into their VESTAMID® Terra polyamide applications and so the company is currently holding a riddle contest. Evonik’s Bigfoot named ECO is looking for castor bean plant Evonik said it will have a series of…
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More green awards, rewards
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My apologies for the sparse posts, I am trying to finish my oleochemical presentation for the Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Workshop, which is due this Friday. In the meantime, I promise to certain somebody to post some of these news that…