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Engineering fungal mycelium to produce leather without cows

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

Sustainable dyes with Synthetic biology

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

Meet the Scientists of the Future Bioeconomy part 7: New super material inspired by mantis shrimp cl

VTT researcher Dr. Pezhman Mohammadi and his research group have developed a new type of nanocomposite made of birch cellulose,...

Nordic Bioproducts winner of the Synbio Power Pitch 2021

Dario Forneris delivered the winning pitch at the YScience event during Slush 2021. The Pitching competition was organised by Synbio...

Synbio Powerhouse Annual Seminar

The Annual seminar of Synbio Powerhouse (duration 2,5 h) is available on Youtube. The event gathered a wide scope of Synbio topics from...

Call for ideas - Synbio Pitching Competition

Synbio Power Pitch Competition 2021 5000 € Award Apply by 10.6.2021 Making the bioeconomy circular with microbes This year's Synbio Power...

CYSS PhD Student in the Finals of the Millennium Fund Pitching Contest

Anna Ylinen made it all the way to the finals in this years Millennium Pitching Contest: :https://millenniuminnovationforum.fi/en/future_...

CYSS Scientists featured in a series on bioeconomy.fi

Meet the Scientists of the Future Bioeconomy in a new blog series on the Finnish Bioeconomy site. CYSS scientists Anna Ylinen and Pezhman...

Mechanism of assembly of biological materials inside cells

One of the future impacts of synthetic biology will be biosynthetic production in microbes of materials such as silk or composites that...

Reinforcement learning for microbial strain design

Post-docoral researcher Maryam Sabzevari’s research deals with using artificial intelligence (AI) to design cell factories. Synthetic...

Expansin-like proteins for bio-based materials engineering

Lignocellulose and chitin, the most abundant polysaccharide resources in the world, could be used to replace oil in production. Taru’s...

The Centre for Young Synbio Scientists is prepared for the coming synthetic biology revolution!

Established in 2019, The Centre for Young Synbio Scientists is now gaining momentum. With six brilliant young scientists, research...

Engineering the cell factory

To stay competitive, industries need to increase their productivity. Typically this is done by improving the process of manufacturing,...

Meet the Scientists of the Future Bioeconomy part 1: Using microbes to create new bioplastics

Research scientist Anna Ylinen is doing her doctoral thesis at the Center for Young Synbio Scientists on microbial bioplastics. They can...

New Bioplastics with Microbes

Research scientist Anna Ylinen is doing her doctoral thesis at the Center for Young Synbio Scientists on microbial bioplastics. They can...

Making Wood Without Trees – Even In Space!

Last year, for the first time ever, Japanese scientists were able to produce nanocellulose in space. In layman's terms, they managed to...

The Living Cell Factory

To stay competitive, industries need to increase their productivity. Typically this is done by improving the process of manufacturing,...

A dental revolution? Super strong materials inspired by nature

Tooth implants, although a great improvement over false teeth, are far from perfect. Expensive and time-consuming to manufacture, they...