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Built with Biology: Spotlight
by SynBioBeta
How can we build a better world with biology and who are the changemakers making it happen? Our Built with Biology Spotlight series highlights the scientists, companies, and entrepreneurs working to solve our world’s biggest problems with biology. When could this technology impact your life and what happens next? Listen to our Spotlight series to hear the story of the future today! Never miss an episode—Subscribe to the Built with Biology Digest for our weekly Spotlight, news, events and more!
Episodes
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How is Ecovative Molding Mushrooms into Sustainable Packaging?
It's so fun to get packages in the mail! Or to ship holiday gifts, your hard-made products, and your heartfelt thank yous. But what's not fun is the impact styrofoam and bubble packaging have on our environment. Meet Ecovative, a leading company innovating modern life with mushrooms! Mycelium...
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How is Cemvita Factory Fighting Climate Change?
Many of the everyday items we use like plastics rely on processes that spew huge amounts of CO2 into our atmosphere, causing climate change. How can we decarbonize these industries and transform modern life to be more sustainable? Meet Cemvita Factory, a company engineering microbes to eat carbon...
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How is Wild Earth Making Pet Food Sustainable?
Our pets are part of the family. They have their favorite nap spots (right where you will trip on them), favorite socks to chew on, and, of course, favorite foods. People the world over are working to lower their personal environmental impact. But how can we do the same for our pets? Meet Wild...
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How Spiber is Spinning Proteins Into Spider Silk?
Love 'em or hate 'em, spiders are amazing creatures. The silks they spin are some of the most interesting and diverse materials found in nature. But spiders can't be farmed for these materials, which are stronger than steel, yet stretching, and soft. Meet Spiber, the bio-materials company brewing...
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How is Colorifix Making Sustainable Dyes With Biology?
Like all of nature, humans communicate to society with colors and patterns, in our case, through fashion! But today's garment fashion industry uses trillions of gallons of fresh water and toxic chemicals to dye clothes. Meet Colorifix, a new company dying clothes using microbes with added genetic...
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How is Glowee Lighting Our World With Microbes?
Our world is full of light - electric light. While these lights have ushered in the modern world, from safer cities to studying all-nighters, their harsh light isn't kind on our eyes or our planet. Meet Glowee, a company working to bring nature back into our daily lives with bioluminescent...
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How is Bolt Threads Making Leather Out of Mushrooms?
Leather is an amazingly versatile material. But getting leather from animals is a labor-intensive and toxic process. Now biomaterials company, Bolt Threads, is reinventing this classic material with mycelium! Soft, sustainable, animal-friendly —and stylish!— mycelium leather is taking sustainable...
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How is Wildtype Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon?
Do you love sushi? Hosts and Fiona and Nikita can’t get enough! So what if we could eat the most amazing seafood in the world without disrupting or damaging our fragile ocean ecosystems? Wildtype, we’re looking at you—we can’t wait to try cell-based sushi! Warning, you may be hungry after…
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How is Amyris Saving Sharks?
"Fish are friends, not food!" But what about sharks? These amazing creatures are routinely hauled out of the deep for their livers - specifically the squalene in their livers, a common product in skincare and beauty products. Amyris, and their consumer product company, Biossance, have created...
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How is Checkerspot Skiing with Algae?
Imagine riding down the slopes on some super sick skis. Now imagine those skis are made of algae. Wait, what?? Checkerspot and their consumer-facing brand, WNDR Alpine, are making high-performance polyurethane foam using oil made by microalgae. Hear how bio-production is taking over from crude…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
How can we build a better world with biology and who are the changemakers making it happen? Our Built with Biology Spotlight series highlights the scientists, companies, and entrepreneurs working to solve our world’s biggest problems with biology.
When could this technology impact your life and what happens next? Listen to our Spotlight series to hear the story of the future today!
Never miss an episode—Subscribe to the Built with Biology Digest for our weekly Spotlight, news, events and more!
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SynBioBeta
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How can we build a better world with biology and who are the changemakers making it happen? Our Built with Biology Spotlight series highlights the scientists, companies, and entrepreneurs working to solve our world’s biggest problems with biology. When could this technology impact your life and...
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