Background: This is a first round, West Regional match-up between #5 seed Ceres and #12 seed Synthetic Genomics in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to […]
In California, a long-term monopoly on the creation of bacterial cell life — held, reportedly, by God (or the open-source community known as evolution) — was broken yesterday when a scientific team headed by Drs. Craig Venter, Hamilton Smith and Clyde Hutchison announced completion of the final step in their quest to create the first […]
Wild type algal strains don’t have the productivity and robust growth characteristics needed to push algae forward as a biofuel feedstock, but researchers are working on changing that. Stephen Mayfield from the University of California San Diego, shared the latest research developments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) 2019 Project Peer […]
In Spain, researchers at the Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), in collaboration with researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea, have recently published a work in Nature Communications journal revealing a new strategy to improve itaconic acid production through synthetic biology technology. Itaconic acid is used as a raw material […]
As birds migrate in the spring, we see many transitions going on in the bioeconomy right now too. From a new CEO for Transform Materials (a company that uses microwave plasma technology to convert natural gas into acetylene and hydrogen), some departures from Stora Enso and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, new board members at […]
“God Loses Monopoly: Synthetic Genomics creates first synthetic bacterial cell,” went the headline in our May feature on the creation of a synthetic life form by a team at Synthetic Genomics. Her formal name is M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 – you can call her Syndi. In a publication in Science, Daniel Gibson, Ph.D. and a team […]
News has arrived from California that Viridos, focused on the production of algae biofuels primarily in the form of SAF and renewable diesel, has raised $25M in a Series A equity investment led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, joined by Chevron and United Airlines Ventures. The funding will be used for R&D to further increase algae […]
In California, Viridos Inc., previously Synthetic Genomics has signed a joint development agreement with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company with the intent to bring Viridos’ low-carbon intensity biofuels toward commercial levels. Founded in 2005 by leaders in synthetic biology, Viridos quickly established itself as a powerhouse for innovative research, transplanting the first genome, synthesizing the […]
Early ballots are in, Praj, LanzaTech leading in “Best Places to Work in the Bioeconomy” voting In Florida, The Digest has released the results in the “Best Places to Work in the Bioeconomy 2020” voting through March 2nd, as we reach the last 2 weeks of voting. “It’s still quite early and there will be […]
For some time, as the advanced bioeconomy has continued its pivot to deployment-scale diesel and jet fuels, there has been quite a bit of scrutiny and skepticism over the sourcing of enough sustainable feedstock to supply all the growing demand. A big part of that puzzle was addressed this week with news that Clariant, ExxonMobil […]
