by admin | Jul 31, 2018 | Biomanufacturing, Industrial Biotechnology
Second most wasteful industry The fashion industry is the second most wasteful in the world, and people are starting to notice. One area of noticeable inefficiency is the textile dyeing process. This process requires enormous amounts of water, using over six trillion...
by admin | Jul 22, 2018 | FoodHealth, Investment
Cambridge-based Microbiotica is a leading microbiome therapeutics development company founded and spun out from the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Microbiotica was formed only 18 months ago, their first funding was awarded by Cambridge Innovation Capital and IP Group for...
by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Biomanufacturing, Diagnostics, FoodHealth, Industrial Biotechnology, Investment
Bugs for babies: new probiotic milk treatment Dr Hall’s group at the Quadram Institute have formulated a probiotic milk treatment for premature babies. This will help populate their gut microbiome with the good bacteria they would not normally acquire due to premature...
by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Diagnostics, Industrial Biotechnology, Investment
Suffolk-based PBD Biotech have received £125,000 from New Anglia Capital to expand its work into Canadian markets. PBD Biotech develops and commercialises Actiphage testing to identify TB cases quickly in cattle. This was based on technology to test for TB in humans...
by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Industrial Biotechnology
A student’s view on the opportunities in the biotech industry Our new intern Alice, working with GoBio, is a first year PhD student based at UEA and has given her perspective of the biotech industry in the eastern region. The biotech industry is a developing and...