Bioeconomy News

Food tech start-up Bluu Seafood presents fish sticks and fish balls, its first products made directly from cultured fish cells.

A new process enables the optimization of numerous drugs, including antibiotics, antidepressants and cholesterol-lowering agents.

According to the latest Green Startup Monitor, most green startups are in the energy and agriculture sectors.

Active ingredients from medicinal plants such as thyme and chamomile can now be used even more effectively thanks to a new process.

A new process improves the economic viability of synthetic fuels from biogenic residues.

Researchers in Mainz have developed a model that can be used to modify the texture of vegetarian and vegan sausages to produce the right crunch.

The TUM WACKER Institute for Industrial Biotechnology is scheduled to begin operations in the 2022/23 winter semester.

The Swabian Jura could soon become the Provence of southern Germany: Researchers want to grow lavender here for essential oils and textile fibers.

Researchers want to replace sugar in ice cream with dietary fiber from food production by-products.

France's Carbios joins forces with PUMA and other sporting goods and apparel companies to establish a biotech-based circular economy in the textile industry.

The University of Göttingen has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Munich-based start-up Smarter Habitat to produce building materials from popcorn granules.

BASF Care Creations has developed two new cosmetic active ingredients based on probiotics.

Mushlabs and Bitburger are expanding their partnership: The biotechnology start-up will use brewery residues as raw materials to feed the fungal mycelia, which in turn will be used to produce new foods.

Using corn straw and the blight fungus Ustilago maydis, researchers want to create an oil that can replace palm oil.

Natural fiber-based organic sheets are expected to make the housings of e-bike batteries lighter.

The water dependence of plants and ecosystems as a result of climate change will increase significantly in some regions, according to a new study.

The Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) in Rostock has opened a new facility to perform laboratory chemistry in the kilo range.

A research team from Hanover is developing a wood-plastic composite that will contribute to the circular economy.

The Wacker chemical group is building a new Biotechnology Center in Munich for a double-digit million sum by 2024.

The finalists for the German Founder Award 2022 have been determined: Among the nominees is the Hamburg-based bioeconomy startup Traceless Materials with its biomaterial made from agricultural residues.