The Sweater is the latest apparel born from the longtime partnership between Spiber, a Japan-based biomaterials startup, and Goldwin, a sportswear manufacturer. While the fast fashion industry relies on petroleum-based...
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One Company Was The First To Produce A Key Component Of The Covid-19 PCR Test. And It Has Now Provided 52 Million Tests
“The actual moment I remember quite vividly, I remember the room I was in,” says Roman Terrill, Senior VP of Products and Services at IDT. “The gravity, what the implication was – the obligations on IDT –...
Bill Gates-Backed Ginkgo Bioworks Has A New $40 Million Spinout Using Synthetic Biology To Clean Wastewater
Nature has a remarkable ability to recycle. It can break apart complex organic materials into simpler compounds. Then nature will re-use those substances to build plants and animals. Last week, Allonnia launched with...
