Biotechnologies

Scientists have designed a new material system to overcome one of the biggest challenges in recycling consumer products: mixed-plastic recycling. Their achievement will help enable a much broader range of fully recyclable plastic products and brings into reach to an efficient circular economy for durable goods like automobiles.

Beautifully designed, energy-generating bio-panels that suck up carbon dioxide and pump out biomass for use as fuel or fertilizer – that's the idea behind Mexican startup Greenfluidics and its nanotech-enhanced microalgae bioreactor building panels.

The company touts its Fine Mycelium process as the only mycelium engineered to be made-to-order and made-to-specification.

L’Académie royale des sciences de Suède a décerné le prix Nobel de chimie 2020 à la Française Emmanuelle Charpentier et l’Américaine Jennifer Doudna, pour leurs travaux sur le développement d’une méthode d’édition du génome.

Researchers are working to find new ways to protect the human body from radiation in space in order to allow people to live far from Earth for years at a time

Synthetic biology startups raised some $3 billion through the first half of 2020, up from $1.9 billion for all of 2019, as the field brings the science of engineering to the art of life.

The biotech industry, which is racing to grow nature-inspired textiles, leathers, and dyes in the lab. These innovations would supposedly combine the best of both worlds: made-to-order and efficient factory production with plant-based ingredients. The question then becomes: can you actually commercialize these materials to make a tangible difference?

Editing the genes of plants and animals could help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and other sectors, according to a new report highlighting the possible uses of the technology.

Denis Rebrikov wants to prevent deafness by gene-hacking human embryos.

Utiliser moins d'eau, moins de pesticides, gérer la plante ou l'animal au plus près : les promesses de l'agriculture de précision sont attrayantes. Pourtant, en grattant le vernis on découvre une réalité toute autre : on ne traite pas le problème, on continue de détruire l’environnement et de fragiliser encore plus les revenus des paysans. Explications.