BioMADE , the nonprofit headquartered at the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus, is expanding its footprint with the development of a new flagship biomanufacturing facility in Maple Grove. The organization will repurpose a 122,000-square-foot building at 7500 Meridian Circle North—near Highway 169 and Elm Creek Boulevard—into a cutting...
BioMADE announced 17 new projects designed to drive the scale-up and commercialization of American biomanufactured products. They include producing biodegradable plastics, upcycling waste to create new products, certification programs to prepare the workforce of tomorrow’s U.S. bioeconomy, developing cell-free systems for commodity chemicals and...
Dr. Doris Taylor, CEO Organamet Bio Inc., is developing a groundbreaking way to engineer personalized hearts using a patient's own stem cells. She is a member of the Leadership Advisory Council of BioFabUSA, a Manufacturing USA institute.
President Biden unveiled a plan to expand biomanufacturing, and biotechnology with $2 billion pledged for a variety of efforts last week. Some of these initiatives may have special appeal to North Carolina’s growing life science sector.
Nearly 800 life sciences companies employ some 70,000 people in the state, according to the N.C. Biotechnology...
Some of the images from the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic are indelible: doctors and nurses wearing garbage bags instead of gowns and reusing the same protective mask for days at a time; homemade plastic face shields replacing professional-grade models; live coverage of deliveries of personal protective equipment to hard-hit hospitals. The...
