08-Oct-2019

BASF and Biomillenia announced the signing of a microbiome discovery agreement. The collaboration aims to identify novel dermocosmetic active ingredients involved in promoting skin health. The French company Biomillenia will contribute its unique microbiome-on-a-chip technology that has the ...

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BASF acquires Isobionics and partners with Conagen

27-Sep-2019

By acquiring Isobionics, an innovation leader in biotechnology which is serving the global market for natural flavors and fragrances (F&F), and through a cooperation agreement with Conagen, a leader in biotechnology research, BASF enters the market for natural F&F ingredients. Being known as a ...

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BASF and CTIBiotech to develop first 3D bioprinted human reconstructed skin including immune macrophages

09-Sep-2019

The joint research of BASF Care Creations® and CTIBiotech is about to reach a new milestone. The cooperation partners announce the development of the first 3D bioprinted skin models including immune macrophages. The reconstructed tissue models will be the basis for development and testing of ...

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BASF is founding member of “value balancing alliance e.V.”

20-Aug-2019

Which values do companies create for society – in environmental, human, social, and financial terms? And how can these contributions be measured and compared? Together with seven international companies of the recently founded “value balancing alliance e.V.”, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ...

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29-Aug-2018

The Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS), with an established track record in the validation of alternatives to animal testing, is teaming up with BASF and Givaudan to validate an improved skin sensitization reactivity method to address the needs of toxicologists and regulators. Scientists at ...

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02-Aug-2018

BASF has closed the acquisition of a range of businesses and assets from Bayer. The transaction is a strategic complement to BASF’s crop protection, biotech and digital farming activities and marks its entry into seeds, non-selective herbicides and nematicide seed treatments. “This strategic move ...

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03-Jul-2018

BASF lifts force majeure for Lutavit® A 1000, Lutavit® A 500, Vitamin A Palmitate 1.6 Mio I.U./g, Lutavit® E 50, Lutavit®E50 S, and Vitamin E Acetate 94% products for its animal nutrition business. The lifting of force majeure for additional vitamin derivatives and for several affected ...

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Unique biotechnological procedure for using gaseous waste as a source for raw materials

14-Jun-2018

BASF Venture Capital GmbH is to invest in LanzaTech, a biotech company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Using special microbes, LanzaTech has developed a technology for gas fermentation that first enables ethanol to be produced from residual gases containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen. ...

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30-May-2018

BASF and Evogene Ltd. announced a new collaboration focusing on the development of novel insecticides based on new binding areas (Site-of-Action or ‘SoA’) on key insecticidal target proteins. The parties also announced that the collaboration achieved its first project milestone, with the joint ...

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Expanded focus on digitalization and start-up companies

02-Nov-2017

At a conference marking the five-year anniversary of the North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials (NORA), the center’s members convened to discuss the outcomes of the research alliance to date as well as future areas of focus, including bioscience and catalysis research, ...

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