Blogs
DuPont expands industrial biotech biz
2011 seems to be starting with a big bang for industrial biotech after hearing two acquisitions activities worth billions of dollars within a month. After DSM's announcement of its $1.
DuPont expands industrial biotech biz
2011 seems to be starting with a big bang for industrial biotech after hearing two acquisitions activities worth billions of dollars within a month.After DSM's announcement of its $1.09bn acquisition of Martek late December, DuPont announced yesterday its $6.3bn...
Interview: Glycos Biotechnologies
I have several interviews lined up for posting and most of them came from the recent BIO industrial biotechnology conference. While the blog has previously mentioned Glycos Biotechnologies' activities, this is the first time that the green blogger had the...
BIO video interviews on industrial biotech
The green blog is still editing its own video interviews taken at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing conference. For now, here are videos provided by BIO, which shows what's on the minds of several companies about...
GlycosBio expands in Malaysia
Houston-based Glycos Biotechnologies announced today that it is building a biochemical plant as well as a biotech R&D facility in Malaysia under a collaboration with the country's biotech hub Bio-XCell Sdn. Bhd., a government-supported industrial ecosystem focused on the advancement...
Clean tech beats biotech and IT
A virtual press conference yesterday from Cleantech Group and Deloitte announced that venture capital (VC) investments for clean technologies in the third quarter of this year overtook investments for (medical) biotechnology and IT. Cleantech group defines clean technology as a...
WWF endorses industrial biotech
Environmental group WWF is giving a green thumbs-up approval to industrial biotechnology stating that not only could it reduce up to 2.5 billion tons/year of CO2 emissions by 2030, it could also help create a true 21st century green economy....
Industrial Biotech Interview: Verdezyne
This is actually the first time that the Green Blog was able to interview and know more about Verdezyne, an industrial biotechnology company (or a synthetic biology company, whatever fits!) based in Carlsbad, California. The company, founded in 2005, was...
Industrial Biotech Interview: Genomatica
This week's industrial biotech interview is California-based Genomatica, a start-up technology company that focuses on producing cost-economic renewable-based chemicals such as 1,4 butanediol (BDO) and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) using the biotechnology route. As opposed to building and operating
Industrial Biotech Interview: Codexis
Codexis, a California-based biotech company, have been active mostly in the pharma and health care sector but its focus has now expanded to next generation biofuels (through its partnership with Shell) and very soon, in carbon capture and water treatment....
