In September, Sapphire Energy, a San Diego startup developing crude-like oil from algae, said it had raised more than $100 million. At its annual biotech meeting in October in Hanover, Germany ...

Controlling starch levels in algae could have biotechnology and sustainability benefits. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 14, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 / 250424121514.htm ...

Plants could sequester around a third more CO2 using new biotechnology being developed by a consortium of universities, which builds on the molecular nature of algae that is particularly efficient at ...

Scottish biotechnology company ScotBio has developed a protein-rich ingredient derived from Spirulina, a blue-green ...

Blue light reduces starch accumulation, while red light increases starch storage. High-starch algae are important in biofuel production, as a feed supplement in agriculture and as an efficient way ...

When Solazyme discovered how to produce renewable oils, at large scale and in a matter of days, they turned to Goldman Sachs for financing and expertise to help fund their research and growth.

Deep Blue Biotech is working with a strain of cyanobacteria — also known as blue-green algae (but note these single-celled microorganisms are actually prokaryotes, rather than algae ...

“While there is a lot of work being done on micro-algae biotechnology – currently around 10,000 researchers across the world – no-one has identified a shortlist of the best performing ...