04.02.2022 Interview
Chemistry Waste Chemistry
"Our biomaterial can replace hard-to-recycle plastic"
With her Hamburg-based start-up Traceless Materials, Anne Lamp wants to launch an innovative biomaterial that is fully compostable.
04.02.2022 Interview
Chemistry Waste Chemistry
With her Hamburg-based start-up Traceless Materials, Anne Lamp wants to launch an innovative biomaterial that is fully compostable.
03.02.2022 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology
A new call for proposals has been launched as part of the "Bioeconomy in the North" funding initiative. It calls for collaborations that research and develop new wood-based biorefinery concepts and products.
08.02.2022 News
Food unspecific Biotechnology/Systems biology
The Dutch specialist for functional food ingredients is to expand the enzyme portfolio of the German biotechnology group.
14.02.2022 News
Chemistry unspecific Chemistry
The Essen-based specialty chemicals group wants to completely ban petroleum-based ingredients from its laundry and cleaning products by 2030 and replace them with biodegradable raw materials instead.
10.02.2022 News
Food Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
The Zwingenberg-based biotechnology company BRAIN is cooperating with the Berlin-based food tech start-up Formo to advance the fermentative production of animal-free milk proteins.
10.02.2022 News
Pharmaceutical industry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
Fibers with two differently functionalized sides are intended to heal damaged nerve and muscle strands more quickly.
09.02.2022 Studies and statistics
Agriculture and forestry Plants unspecific
A new study by the University of Bonn and the Breakthrough Institute (USA) shows that genetically modified plants could have a positive impact on the environment and especially on the climate.
11.02.2022 Studies and statistics
unspecific unspecific Biodiversity
The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) has warned of dramatic effects of the increasing plastic waste in the oceans. It refers to a study by the Alfred Wegener Institute.
28.02.2022 News
Food Waste Agriculture sciences
A research team is investigating which residues are used as food to turn fly larvae into particularly valuable protein feed.
21.02.2022 News
Chemistry Waste Chemistry
With a view to a circular bioeconomy, researchers at IfBB are investigating whether asparagus peels are suitable as fillers for biocomposites.
16.02.2022 News
Food Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
A big hit in the German biotechnology sector: The Leipzig-based enzyme manufacturer c-LEcta is acquired by the Irish group Kerry for 137 million euros.
15.03.2022 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Plant breeding research
Munich plant researchers have discovered a key protein that controls phosphate uptake through symbiosis with fungi.
23.02.2022 News
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How sustainable is the bioeconomy in Germany? The monitoring consortium SYMOBIO 2.0, which has now been launched, screens relevant data, analyzes and evaluates it.
24.02.2022 News
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Initially targeting the EUR 250 million mark, the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) has come out of fundraising oversubscribed thanks to newly acquired investors.
01.03.2022 News
unspecific unspecific Chemistry
A combined method of simulation and experiment predicts the ecotoxicity of bioeconomy products.
07.03.2022 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
A research team is developing a biotechnological process to produce succinic acid based on the bacterium Vibrio natriegens.
01.03.2022 Interview
Food Animals Agriculture sciences
Under the umbrella of Fraunhofer IMTE, the team led by Carsten Schulz from the Society for Marine Aquaculture (GMA) will further develop the potential of the Blue Bioeconomy in the future.
09.03.2022 News
Energy Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology
Researchers have developed an innovative process that enables the use of chips from poplar wood for biomethane and peat substitution.
10.03.2022 News
Agriculture and forestry Microorganisms Agriculture sciences
Benign Pseudomonas strains ensure that their pathogenic relatives do not cause any damage in plants, as researchers from Tübingen have discovered.
23.03.2022 Interview
Agriculture and forestry Microorganisms Agriculture sciences
Bayreuth geoecologist Johanna Pausch is researching how root fungi in symbiosis with plants control carbon turnover in soils.