Textile industry weighs heavy on the environment. 99 % of the pigments currently used in textiles are fossil-based synthetic dyes. To...

Harnessing microbes for industrial purposes using synthetic biology requires a systematic design build test learn cycle approach -...

Another abundant feedstock - readily available for biotechnological utilization, are the food industry side streams. Microbes are...

In a recently established Business Finland project - SynbioPro - researchers at VTT and Tampere University are working on turning...

Our efforts to significantly decrease the use of fossil raw material puts high pressure on developing sustainable alternatives. And this...

The pulp and paper industry could potentially offer many opportunities for synthetic biology. Current pulping methods create side streams...

Recently a group of scientists at VTT demonstrated continuous production of mycelium leather at 1 meter per minute. Fungal mycelium is...

Annually hundreds of thousands of tons of fruit peels, seeds and sugar beet pulp, a side stream of sugar production, pile up without high...

One of the most abundant industrial side streams in the world is of course CO2. Using this carbon source efficiently, instead of pumping...

Knallgas bacteria are able to use CO2 as feedstock. These bacteria can be used for example in protein production. This video is part of...

Around 2 billion years ago something extraordinary emerged from the primordial seas of our planet: photosynthetic bacteria. Known to many...

Spider silk is one of the strongest materials found in the natural world. Scientists have been studying spider silk for decades, not just...

The fashion industry has a huge carbon footprint that is growing rapidly. In the NewLeather project at VTT, senior scientist Géza Szilvay...

The colors we use to dye our clothes are a burden to the environment. The researches in the BioColour -consortium have taken this...