Start-up aims to accelerate bioprocess development

IRUBIS secures pre-series A funding led by BioProcess360 Partners

02-Sep-2024 - Biotech startup IRUBIS, developing a state-of-the-art real-time bioprocess monitoring solution, has successfully closed a pre-series A funding round. The financing round was led by BioProcess360 Partners, with participation from previous investors such as High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Verve ...

Danone, start-up DMC, Michelin and Crédit Agricole Centre France join forces to create a cutting-edge biotechnology platform

Using precision fermentation to produce sustainable, bio-based materials and ingredients

14-Jun-2024 - Two major French industrial leaders Danone and Michelin, the American start-up DMC Biotechnologies and Crédit Agricole Centre France, a key investor in the region, have agreed to create the Biotech Open Platform to bolster the development of advanced fermentation processes, particularly precision ...

Researchers succeeded in biomanufacturing using chemically synthesized sugar for the first time in the world

Biomanufacturing using chemically synthesized sugars enables sustainable supply of sugar without competing with food

21-Feb-2024 - Biomanufacturing using biomass sugars such as corn obtained from agriculture is attracting attention as an environmentally friendly technology. However, the supply of such conventional biomass sugars is limited in relation to the huge demand for the production of fuels and chemical products, ...

The Largest Biotech City in Europe Will Soon Be Built

The entire BIO CITY complex will span an area equivalent to 10 football fields, total investment expected to reach around 7 billion euros

06-Dec-2023 - Northway Group is embarking on a project to establish Europe’s largest biotechnology hub, BIO CITY, in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It includes 6 large biotechnological complexes – 4 state-of-the-art GMP manufacturing plants and 2 advanced scientific research centres – that will be built in ...

Brooks Instrument Joins Major Biotechnology Consortium Focused on Regenerative Drug Manufacturing

Brooks Instrument will contribute insights and precision fluid control technology to the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute’s BioFabUSA program

11-Aug-2023 - Brooks Instrument has joined the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) and will be an active participant in the organization’sBioFabUSAprogram. ARMI is a member-based, nonprofit entity whose mission is to expand the bioeconomy of the United States. Through its programs, ARMI ...

Waters and Sartorius Expand Collaboration to Deliver Comprehensive Bioanalytics for Downstream Biomanufacturing

06-Jun-2023 - Waters Corporation and Sartorius announced a new collaboration to develop integrated analytical solutions for downstream biomanufacturing, expanding their joint agreement that began with upstream bioprocessing analytics. Software and hardware integrations between the Waters™ PATROL™ ...

Tiny microbes could brew big benefits for green biomanufacturing

The discovery could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of fuels, drugs, and chemicals

15-May-2023 - Scientists find new route in bacteria to decarbonize industry. A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has engineered bacteria to produce new-to-nature carbon products that could provide a powerful route to sustainable biochemicals. The advance ...

Speeding up sugar's conversion into fuel

“We’re only at the dawn of what is a very exciting age in this space”

19-Jan-2023 - University of Queensland researchers have found a way to more efficiently convert sugarcane into a building block of aviation fuel and other products. By zeroing in on a specific enzyme, a UQ team working in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has sped up the slowest step ...

Swedish startup raises €21 million to accelerate the commercialisation of its cell-free biomanufacturing technology

"EnginZyme provides a unique and green solution with the potential to drive the chemical sector in a sustainable direction"

22-Dec-2022 - EnginZyme, a green tech company developing biomanufacturing processes for the sustainable manufacturing of everyday products, announced that it had raised €21 million in a Series B financing round. New investors, including Almi Invest GreenTech, Navigare Ventures and Bunge Ventures, join existing ...

DIC and Debut Biotech Advance and Scale Biomanufacturing of Sustainable Red Colorants for Food, Nutrition, and Cosmetics

02-Aug-2022 - DIC Corporation (DIC) announced the start of the second phase of a joint development agreement with California-based biotech startup Debut Biotechnology, Inc. (Debut Biotech), a synthetic biology company at the forefront of advanced biomanufacturing technology. The agreement focuses on creating ...