Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Carbon transformation company Twelve and biotechnology company LanzaTech have partnered to transform CO2 emissions into polypropylene, a key polymer used for medical devices including syringes and IV bags, as well as for large-scale applications in automotive, furniture, textiles and other everyday products.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

By Katelyn Weisbrod Critics are questioning claims by a start-up biotechnology company that a genetically engineered version of the woolly mammoth could help alleviate climate change and restore Siberia’s grassland ecosystem to its Pleistocene heyday. Colossal , a company founded by technology entrepreneur B.

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Physics World

APRIL 23, 2021

The system uses a technology called CANARY developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When they do so, they begin to emit light: “When CANARY technology was originally developed, [the MIT researchers] basically cloned out the same genes that jellyfish use to be bioluminescent,” explains Flannery.

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Frontiers

JULY 13, 2023

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image courtesy of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment Scientists have developed mycocrete, a paste made with the root network of fungus called mycelium, as a building material. Knitting is an incredibly versatile 3D manufacturing system,” said Scott. “It

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Frontiers

APRIL 26, 2022

While modern science has debunked the Red Planet as a likely source of an alien invasion, today’s technology is bringing us closer to a crewed mission. Both Abel and Berliner are members of the Center for the Utilization of Biological Engineering in Space (CUBES), a project developing biotechnologies to support space exploration.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This is a story of desperation, anger, poverty—and triumph over long odds to crack the code of a degenerative disease that had been stealing the lives of children since it was first discovered. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 4, 2021

It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical engineering, biotechnology and drug discovery, environmental and occupational health, population health, and health policy. Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It is designed to inspire young girls to learn more about careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Included among the fields represented are pharmaceutical and biotechnology, academia, and non-government organizations (NGOs). billion times, reflecting the power of research that is open for all.    

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Nanotech

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On October 23, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the designation of 31 communities across the United States as Regional Innovation and Technology Hubs (Tech Hubs) through the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration.

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Nanotech

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The scientists are now using their newly developed and patented Symbiont TM technology to show that nanobodies can be easily produced in a plant system with broad agricultural and public health applications. ARS researchers evaluated nanobodies to prevent and treat citrus greening disease in citrus trees.

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Water Research & Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

We are delighted to announce new members of the Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology Advisory Board. His research interests are drinking water disinfection byproducts, aquatic microplastics and sustainable treatment technologies. Defeng is a Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. David Weissbrodt.

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Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

“Most of the members of our team have a personal connection to traumatic brain injury and we care deeply about ensuring long-term athlete brain health,” said Nicholas Cecchi, a PhD candidate at Stanford University and lead author of the study in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

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Frontiers

MARCH 15, 2023

Writing in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology , a team of Chinese researchers has examined whether structure and efficacy of fish decalcified bone matrix (FDBM) has similar properties. Dispersal will allow geographic range shifts for 49.7% of species, but only 6.5%

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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Frontiers

AUGUST 11, 2021

This week, Freya Wilson talks to Dr. Marlen Vasquez, an environmental toxicologist at the Cyprus University of Technology. From my early years in the Dominican Republic, science and technology were always around me. I am Vice Chair of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action ‘Ocean4Biotech’.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

Importantly (and often misunderstood), he meant not that we are gods, but instead that technologies have given humanity powers that had previously been exclusive to the gods. I thus wrote the paper “ Earth System Interventions as Technologies of the Anthropocene ,” which was published (open access!)

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Frontiers

JANUARY 18, 2023

A more efficient food source The review highlights the current technologies for commercially developing and growing microalgae, as well as the scientific and economic challenges to scaling production.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 9, 2022

BASF plans to substantially increase its use of industrial biotechnology in the coming years as part of a strategy to combat high energy prices, drive down greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact, and launch products with novel performance, Melanie Maas-Brunner, BASF’s chief technology officer, told journalists … Continue reading BASF (..)

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Physics World

MAY 11, 2021

“The device demonstrates how, using ultrasound technology coupled with very clever integrated circuit design, you can create sophisticated implants that go very deep into tissue to take data from organs,” says Maharbiz. Measurements more than skin deep.

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Frontiers

APRIL 25, 2022

Today, we speak to Elodie Vandelle , Associate Professor in Plant Pathology at the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Verona , who is involved in studying the interaction between plants and pathogenic microorganisms. If this was a well-known notion, public opinion on this technology would not be so much against.

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Brag

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the RFI “Overcoming Barriers to Renewable Fuel Scale-Up and Demonstration,” DOE expresses its wish to obtain input from biofuels producers and technology developers regarding their readiness to scale process technologies to pilot- and demonstration-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, and renewable marine fuels.

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Brag

APRIL 5, 2023

Hutton As part of the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, the U.S. As reported in our March 30, 2023, blog item , on March 22, 2023, DOD released its Biomanufacturing Strategy to guide these investments, and its broader efforts in this critical technology field. global competitiveness in biotechnology is maintained.

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Water Research & Technology

JANUARY 3, 2022

Dr. Yuan’s research is focused on developing new environmental biotechnology for water/wastewater treatment and energy/resource recovery. This will ultimately accelerate the development and implementation of more sustainable environmental biotechnology in a cost-effective way and profoundly change how we conduct experimental research.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

DOE aims to advance technologies to replace petroleum fuels used in heavy-duty forms of transportation, such as airplanes and ships. DOE selected 22 projects to receive the available funds administered by its Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). Department of Energy (DOE) announced the availability of $64.7

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Brag

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The scientists are now using their newly developed and patented Symbiont TM technology to show that nanobodies can be easily produced in a plant system with broad agricultural and public health applications. ARS researchers evaluated nanobodies to prevent and treat citrus greening disease in citrus trees.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The emphasis of the journal on creating Research Topics gives Frontiers in Genome Editing the opportunity and the mandate to help build those critical collaborations needed to address the future of this technology. She manages two journals, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Frontiers in Genome Editing.

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Brag

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Biological recycling, or biorecycling, is an emerging technology that uses microbes, such as bacteria or fungi, to break down plastic into its basic components for reuse. According to GAO, entities seeking to engage in biorecycling could face a “complicated legal landscape” that may pose a challenge for the emerging technology.

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Brag

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Topic 1, Chemical Evaluation, includes three research areas, including emerging materials and technologies. In addition, investigation of novel products of synthetic biology, genome editing, and metabolic engineering is needed to support risk assessment of emerging biotechnology products.

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ESA

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Since the CBD was first negotiated in the early 1990s, modern biotechnology has made remarkable progress. Parties emphasized that these technologies often impact their regions first, making it essential to have local experts capable of assessing the associated risks.

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Frontiers

JUNE 30, 2022

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Nanotech

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

On November 15, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report by the Biomanufacturing Interagency Working Group entitled “Building a Vibrant Domestic Biomanufacturing Ecosystem.” The Working Group includes representatives from the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Corporation Bayer Image Image Products pharmaceuticals, v eterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and specialty medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Corporation Bayer Image Image Products pharmaceuticals, v eterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and specialty medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007). Manufacturing Business Technology | March 14, 2019 French activists have spray-painted the Paris headquarters of Bayer AG and plastered it with signs to protest its production of environment-damaging pesticides.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Corporation Bayer Image Image Products pharmaceuticals, v eterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and specialty medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Nanotech

JUNE 3, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO) Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy Consortium (ChemCatBio) will hold a webinar on artificial intelligence (AI) for catalysis. On June 12, 2024, the U.S.

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