17.12.2015 Success story
Pharmaceutical industry Microorganisms Nutritional sciences
The Berlin-based company Organobalance has developed a process that protects compounds such as vitamins, trace elements and fatty acids with a natural casing.
Researcher Profile
Pharmaceutical industry unspecific Chemistry
Sonja Jost is an expert in the area of chiral catalysis. The engineer is the director of Dexlechem, a Berlin-based start-up that has already begun to make the business of synthesising drugs easier on the environment.
02.07.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
Researchers at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences have developed a biological process in which worms and microbes help to break down microplastics in wastewater.
03.07.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
An optimal redistribution of global nitrogen quantities in fertilisation would also ensure food security and sustainability in countries of the Global South. This is the conclusion of an international study involving researchers from Göttingen.
04.07.2024 News
Chemistry Waste Chemistry
Fraunhofer researchers have developed a flexible film material from the bioplastic PLA that does not require plasticisers and is recyclable.
09.07.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Chemistry
Using bacteria from bovine rumen, researchers led by the chemical company BASF want to produce the platform chemical fumaric acid from industrial emissions from chemical production.
07.08.2024 Success story
Agriculture and forestry Plants Plant breeding research
In the SelWineQ project, viticulture researchers are looking for genetic markers in grape varieties in order to predict the quality of future wine by analysing leaves and to speed up breeding.
04.09.2024 Success story
Agriculture and forestry Microorganisms Agriculture sciences
In an SME innovation project, the SenseUp team has found a method to reduce the production costs of RNA molecules for crop protection by more than a factor of 1000.
10.07.2024 News
unspecific unspecific Bioökonomie mitgestalten
The state capital of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, is the first city in Germany to present a municipal bioeconomy strategy with 22 specific measures to drive forward the transition to a bio-based future.
18.07.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
Permaculture has the potential to combine agriculture, environmental protection and nature conservation. This is the conclusion of a study involving the Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau.
15.07.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
A research team from the Jena Cluster of Excellence ‘Balance of the Microverse’ has decoded the mechanism that enables some bacterial strains to reflect light and form colours in a similar way to butterfly wings.
19.07.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Biodiversity
With the help of a newly developed algorithm, Leipzig researchers can use data from the plant identification app Flora Incognita to determine the effects of climate change on the plant world.
22.07.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
An international research team involving the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research is calling for new sustainable cultivation practices to improve nitrogen uptake in wheat cultivation instead of applying more fertilizer.
24.07.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
As part of a newly launched EU project, researchers at the University of Hanover want to tap into the benefits of pulses in order to promote the acceptance and cultivation of beans, lentils and the like in European agriculture.
29.07.2024 News
Construction Waste Biotechnology/Systems biology
Fraunhofer researchers want to use biogenic carbon from biomass as a carbon sink for the production of sustainable concrete and bricks.
24.07.2024 Studies and statistics
Food Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
Both companies and research institutes are currently working on biotechnological processes for the production of animal-free alternatives to dairy products. Researchers at the University of Göttingen investigated the acceptance of such products by consumers.
30.07.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
Jena-based natural product researcher Christian Hertweck has been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council for his pioneering research into new active substances from anaerobic bacteria.
02.08.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have changed the sensitivity of bacterial systems for controlling gene activity to red light, opening up new possibilities in the biotechnological application of bacteria.
05.08.2024 News
unspecific unspecific Bioökonomie mitgestalten
In the run-up to the meeting of the G20 countries in Brazil in September, the G20 science academies, including Lepoldina, defined measures for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals - also for the bioeconomy.
05.08.2024 Studies and statistics
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According to a study by the Capgemini Research Institute on the Bioeconomy, companies across industries are focusing on the transformative potential of synthetic biology.
