LanzaTech and BASF achieve first milestone in utilizing industrial off-gases for chemical production

14-May-2021

Transforming the carbon contained in industrial off-gases into valuable chemicals is the aim of a partnership between LanzaTech and BASF. Now the partners have achieved a key first success: With the help of special bacteria, they have been able to produce n-octanol at laboratory scale from carbon ...

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Bota Bio’s next-generation industrial biology platform is a combination of computation and cutting-edge biotechnology

17-Mar-2021

BASF Venture Capital (BVC) has invested in Bota Biosciences, Ltd. (Bota Bio), an industrial synthetic biotech company based in Hangzhou, China. Bota Bio, founded in 2019, is developing a proprietary next-generation biotechnology platform which enables sustainable and economical production of high ...

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BIOTECH AUSTRIA aims to strengthen Austrian biotechnology locally and internationally

15-Dec-2020

BIOTECH AUSTRIA, the first specific branch association for the biotechnology industry in Austria was founded. The founding members include numerous companies and institutions of Austrian biotechnology. The foundation of the association arises from an initiative by board members of APEIRON ...

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More than 1,000 new products point to future trends

24-Nov-2020

analytica China 2020 came to a successful conclusion on November 18, 2020 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. The show brought together 1,009 exhibitors (2018: 950) and 112 represented companies and partners. 23,652 professional visitors attended. With six exhibition halls, eight ...

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Largest virtual platform of the laboratory industry

27-Oct-2020

analytica 2020 successfully concludes five days of virtual trade fair and presentation formats: A total of 21,641 participants (unique users) from 152 nations took part in the world’s leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology, which was held for the first time in ...

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Exhibitors thus will be able to better plan their trade fair participation

20-Oct-2020

analytica Vietnam, the most important meeting place for the laboratory industry in the country, will be postponed from April 2021 to the autumn and now takes place at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center in Ho Chi Minh City from October 7 to 9, 2021. Against the background of the ongoing ...

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Biotechnological solutions for degradation and recycling of plastics

15-Oct-2020

Plastics are wonderful materials. They are extremely versatile and of almost eternal durability. But that also causes a problem. After around 100 years of plastic production, plastic particles are almost everywhere: in ground water, the oceans, the air and the food chain. Across the globe, ...

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Market figures: German laboratory industry in the coronavirus year with winners and losers

13-Oct-2020

For the first time in its more than fifty-year-long success story, from October 19 to 23 analytica 2020 will take place in purely digital form. This year, no other format offers such a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in analysis, biotechnology and laboratory technology. 268 ...

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New biosensor facilitates the search for efficient microorganisms

07-Oct-2020

They’re small, but mighty: microorganisms. The industry known as “white biotechnology” takes advantage of their potential in a variety of ways, for example to produce chemicals, medicines, or dietary supplements. The little powerhouses’ work can be found in a whole series of products, the number ...

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Research team genetically eliminated an unnecessary energy consumer - This means that less light is sufficient for catalysis

07-Oct-2020

Researchers from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) show in the journal ACS Catalysis from 4 September 2020 how the catalytic activity of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can be significantly increased. This brings biotechnological and thus ...

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