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Innovations to make you smile, lab created wagyu beef and mink fur, BMW’s latest, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of September 8th

September 7, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

Is that shrimp stuck in your teeth? How about shrimp weapon-inspired material for your dental implact crowns? That’s just what researchers created with a cellulose-based nanocomposite inspired by the ultra-strong clubs shrimp use to pulverize prey such as clams. And another thing to smile about is the world’s first carbon-neutral toothbrush made from cellulose […]

Biobased adidas, bath bomb burials, lab-grown mouse meat and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of August 18th

August 17, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

“I’m walking on sunshine, woooah, and don’t it feel good!!” is what you’ll be singing with this week’s innovations. Between biobased adidas shoes that hit the Olympic stage and are now available to us common folk, REI’s partially biobased trail shoe, REEF’s new renewable sandal, we certainly will be walking on sunshine. In today’s Digest, […]

Stake in Steak: Shiok acquires 90% of cultured beef startup

August 16, 2021 | Rebecca Gendron

In Singapore, Shiok Meats has acquired a 90% stake in Gaia Foods, a company developing cultured meats including beef, pork, and mutton, for an undisclosed sum. Shiok Meats is known for cultured seafood, and in July announced funding for a production facility. Both companies are based in Singapore, which became the first country to approve […]

Seafood to Sustainable Packaging?: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Cellulose-Chitin

July 15, 2021 | Jim Lane

This weekend, hold onto that crustacean food waste – your crab, lobster and shrimp shells – it has chitin in it! Chitin is being looked at by Georgia Tech as feedstock to create bioplastic and biodegradable food packaging. Check out their progress and outcomes and how they are developing a performance advantaged bioproduct.

Clariant and India Glycols biobased ethylene oxide JV, biobased travel and lamps, faster forest regeneration, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of July 8th

July 8, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

News came this week that Clariant and India Glycols established a joint venture to produce biobased ethylene oxide derivatives for home and personal care markets. With travel now returning in many places, biobased luggage using BioX material is the latest bio-innovation. And in other signs of hope and light, a new lamp made from orange […]

Crab-tivating idea: Textile treatments from seafood waste

July 5, 2021 | Rebecca Gendron

In South Carolina, Tidal Vision is building a production plant to manufacture textile treatments made from chitosan, a seafood industry byproduct from the shells of crabs and shrimp. Dubbed Tidal-Tex, the treatment is a drop-in replacement for the harmful chemicals often used in current textile treatments. “Our proprietary lower-cost chitosan technology, combined with lower freight […]

Seafood without feet or fins, biocement tackles CO2, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of June 24th

June 23, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

The world’s first “whole muscle seafood alternative” via fermentation is here according to AquaCultured Foods, thanks to using fungi to produce seafood substitutes for products like calamari, shrimp, whitefish, and tuna. And North Carolina-based Biomason has commercialized its tiles and bricks made out of bacteria as an alternative to CO2 high-polluting cement, with H&M planning […]

Meat without feet (or fins): Chicago company reports alternative seafood breakthrough

June 21, 2021 | Rebecca Gendron

In Chicago, alternative seafood startup AquaCultured Foods claims to have produced the world’s first “whole muscle seafood alternative” via fermentation. The process uses fungi to produce seafood substitutes for products like calamari, shrimp, whitefish, and tuna. “Plant-based seafood is an area that has been notoriously lacking in options,” says Anne Palermo, CEO and cofounder, AquaCultured […]

Virginia Tech scientists extract protein and fiber from brewer’s spent grains

April 21, 2021 | Meghan Sapp

In Virginia, Virginia Tech scientists report a new way to extract the protein and fiber from brewer’s spent grain and use it to create new types of protein sources, biofuels and more. Craft brewing has become more popular than ever in the U.S. This increased demand has led to an increase in production, generating a […]

Whisky Project squeezes every wee dram, insects could be key to Mars colonization, commercial-scale lab-grown chicken, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of December 25th

December 24, 2020 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

Some of you may be celebrating the holidays with a bit of whisky – or ‘whiskey’ in some countries – but who knew this distilled alcoholic beverage could be so handy for the bioeconomy! The Whisky Project led by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre, includes Horizon Proteins, MiAlgae, and BioPower Technologies working to maximize value […]