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• BRAIN announces €60m round of financing to expand its buy-and-build strategy

  The supervisory board and the board of management of the biotechnology company BRAIN AG agreed on a €60m capital increase during a meeting of the supervisory board held on 19 November 2012. The capital increase helps pave the way for the implementation of BRAIN’s “buy-and-build” industrialisation st more

• BASF aligns research even more closely to future topics, global markets and customer industries

  BASF is realigning its research and is focusing even more strongly on the market and the global customer industries. Alongside the further development of the established business portfolio, the main research emphasis is being placed on growth and technology fields that address social challenges and more

• Going back to nature

  The concept of ‘White Biotech’ is nothing new.  People have been using natural products to create health-giving products for millennia.  However in the first half of the 20th century organic chemistry developed ways to create many of these products artificially: some using oil, a diminishing resourc more

Publications White Biotechnology

• Investigations on diffusion limitations of biocatalyzed reactions in amphiphilic polymer conetworks in organic solvents

  Abstract The use of enzymes as biocatalysts in organic media is an important issue in modern white biotechnology. However, their low activity and stability in those media often limits their full‐scale application. Amphiphilic polymer conetworks (APCNs) have been shown to greatly activate entrapp more

• Xenomic networks variability and adaptation traits in wood decaying fungi

  Summary Fungal degradation of wood is mainly restricted to basidiomycetes, these organisms having developed complex oxidative and hydrolytic enzymatic systems. Besides these systems, wood‐decaying fungi possess intracellular networks allowing them to deal with the myriad of potential toxic compo more

• Bio‐based production of organic acids with Corynebacterium glutamicum

  Summary The shortage of oil resources, the steadily rising oil prices and the impact of its use on the environment evokes an increasing political, industrial and technical interest for development of safe and efficient processes for the production of chemicals from renewable biomass. Thus, micro more

Market studies White Biotechnology

• Future of White Biotechnology in China

  White biotechnology (WB) industry, which is often referred to the third wave in biotechnology, is one of the most promising new approaches to pollution prevention, resource conservation, and cost reduction around the world. Eying the huge economic benefit, environmental benefit and social benefit fr more

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