Vireo Advisors and representatives from the Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability (RISS) will host a half-day workshop “Cellulose Nanomaterial Safety: Building a Bridge from Theory to Practice” on June 4, 2019 at this year’s TAPPI Nanotechnology Division Conference in Chiba, Japan (June 3 - 7, 2019).

Christina Agapakis of Ginkgo Bioworks, along with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sissel Tolaas recently installed an exhibition entitled Resurrecting the Sublime at the St. Etienne Design Biennial.

Congratulations to UBQ Materials for being awarded “Best Use of Alternative Feedstocks” during the Bio Market Insights Innovation Awards 2019 for their work transforming household waste into a sustainable, infinitely renewable material.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a way to use wax to transfer graphene, which tends to wrinkle and break when removed from the substrate it is grown on, to a new substrate.

The University of California was issued another patent relating to CRISPR, which is a ground breaking technique for gene editing in bacteria, plants and animals.