Company Profile | September 02, 2020
Claims n‑butanol production at 30% to 40% lower cost and with 65% to 85% lower GHG emissions; other products include n‑hexanol, n‑octanol, n‑decanol, and 2‑ethyl‑hexanol Has demonstrated the technology at a pilot scale of 7 kg/hour of ethanol; revamping its pilot plant to be able to process 15 ... Not part of subscription
Company Snapshot | September 02, 2020
The company was started by current CEO Samantha Anderson, a Ph.D. student in the Laboratory of Molecular Simulation (LSMO) at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, alongside colleagues Dr. Christopher Ireland and Bardiya Valizadeh in February 2020. The company is a developer of a hydrolysis‑... Not part of subscription
News Commentary | September 16, 2021
The MIT and Montana State University research team included Feng Zhang, the noted CRISPR patent holder. The work outlines a new system of RNA‑guided endonucleases that the team calls Obligate Mobile Element Guided Activity (OMEGA) and includes more than 1 million suspected loci for one of OMEGA, ... Not part of subscription
by Thomas Hayes
Tufts developed a very similar process to the one from the University of Illinois, but it utilizes galactose as a feedstock instead of lactose. Tufts claims a yield up to 85%, whereas the University of Illinois claimed up to 90%. Bonumose still offers a more potent pathway to cost-effective tagatose (and rare sugars in general), but the company has been quiet since 2017. Since then, it did receive strategic investment from Bangchak Corporation in 2018, but there is little evidence that the company will succeed in scaling up within the next one or two years. Rather than waiting it out, clients should seed research on fermentation approaches from the likes of Tufts and the University of Illinois, as these are promising routes to rare sugars.
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