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Investment in India’s life sciences crawls behind US and China. A new initiative could change that

Omnivore’s Biowave will bring more VC investment into India’s life sciences.

APAC

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

IdeeLab achieves CDMO status with new industrial-scale facility for ag biological production

The company has increased manufacturing capacity from pilot scale to 1 million liters annually, and can now assist customers at any stage.

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Developing markets

From jumping genes to designer genomes: Anthology’s blueprint for smarter bioproduction strains

By optimizing the genomes of underexplored organisms you could enable cost-efficient bioproduction of a far wider range of products, says Boston based startup Anthology.

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Deeptech

Investment in India’s life sciences crawls behind US and China. A new initiative could change that

IdeeLab achieves CDMO status with new industrial-scale facility for ag biological production

From jumping genes to designer genomes: Anthology’s blueprint for smarter bioproduction strains

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Xoople secures $129m, Farmley raises $40m, Foodiq bags $11m

Asset manager SLM Partners highlights ‘critical’ revenue from carbon credits in new regen ag case study

BREAKING: Canadian insect ag pioneer Aspire pursues court-supervised rescue deal

Danforth Technology Center launches gene-editing startup Spearhead Bio to solve ‘a major obstacle with CRISPR’

🎥 Designer probiotics startup ZBiotics has sold 8 million ‘pre-alcohol’ shots, launched new ‘sugar to fiber’ product

🎥 Switch Bioworks: ‘Just replacing 25% of nitrogen fertilizer with biologicals at yield parity would be game changing’

Heura bags $22.2m from EIB to expand plant-based tech platform, aims for profitability in Q4

How Farmers Edge and National Sorghum Producers are removing friction from sustainability reporting

🎥 NoPalm Ingredients: ‘Buyers are not prepared to pay a green premium. We have to offer price parity’

Better Dairy targets high-margin nutrition market with precision-fermented osteopontin

🎥 Enduro Genetics aims to deliver its first two projects this year to turbocharge bioproduction: ‘We’re taking some of the ‘bio’ out of biomanufacturing’

Guest article: The Perfect Day lawsuit… an ingredient naming case in disguise?

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aquaculture co Laxey raises $146m, Hoofprint Biome lands $15m

Yeap gears up to commercialize upcycled yeast protein and unlock new income stream with fiber-rich product

Beyond Meat’s ‘clearly disappointing’ Q1: ‘The Beyond value proposition remains obscured in doubt and misinformation’ says CEO

From bulky bulbs to tiny chips: Uviquity emerges from stealth with far-UVC disinfection breakthrough

Liberation Labs teams up with Vivici to produce animal-free whey protein in Indiana

Farm management platform Fieldin teams up with ARAG to bring precision spraying to more US growers

BlueTree targets Latam, Southeast Asia, as novel sugar reduction tech gains momentum

Alt meat startup Meati back from the brink but not out of the woods

Fermentation will power next wave of natural colors say startups as FDA targets synthetic food dyes

Acadian Plant Health seaweed-based biostimulants boost crop quality, field trials reveal

Are natural alternatives to synthetic food dyes getting better? In conversation with ADM

Can InsectBiotech crack the code on insect ag economics by tapping into Spain’s olive waste?

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