Tag Archive for: Industrial Biotech

The French AI-synbio specialist Abolis Biotechnologies SAS has entered a strategic €140m alliance with API manufacturer EuroAPI SA under the IPCEI Med4Cure funding programme. Within the collaboration, Abolis is developing production chassis for microbial corticosteroid manufacturing. The goal: to make Europe independent from imports from Asia.

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee wants to improve technology transfer in industrial biotechnology through better regulation, more funding, and improved access to scale-up infrastructure for biomanufacturing and bioengineering start-ups.

With a 7.7% lead, the incoming Christian Democrat Chancellor Friedrich Merz has put the radical right-wing AfD in its place. Before forming a government in Germany, Merz emphasised that Germany wants to strengthen the EU’s self-sufficiency, although the role of biotechnology seems to be of secondary importance to him.

Fermenter within Factory01. © Solar Foods Oy

Finnish Solar Foods Oy has started microbial production of its protein powder Solein in Factory 01, Solar Foods’ first commercial-scale production facility in Vantaa, Finland.