Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Announcement, Bioengineering, Facilities

A new bioindustrial manufacturing scale-up facility has been designed to help advance innovative biobased solutions and products from the lab to commercialization.

BioMADE , a U.S. Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institute, is partnering with the Iowa State University (ISU) Research Park and ISU on this collaborative initiative to...

Iowa State University
Bioengineering, Biomanufacturing

Iowa State University’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering researchers are leading two of five new projects announced by BioMADE to advance the United States bioeconomy and biomanufacturing goals. These projects were funded through a special BioMADE Project Call on advancing bioreactor design and development thanks to support from...

Bioengineering, Biomanufacturing

A nonprofit partnership that includes Cargill and 3M wants the state of Minnesota to invest half the money toward a $200 million biomanufacturing campus that would develop ways to use feedstocks such as corn, soy and sugar beets to make alternatives to petroleum-based products.

The group, called BioMADE, would pitch in $100 million and is asking...

Bioengineering, Biomanufacturing

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched a multimillion-dollar, multiyear program with BioMADE, Farmed Materials and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 2022 to develop a domestic source of natural rubber from a specific species of dandelion.

Natural rubber is a crucial element in the Department of the Air Force’s production of...

Bioengineering, Biofabrication, Biomanufacturing

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...