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New CTSS episode is out, with @bova_fett from @mobiuspbc! Awesome startup that partners with companies generating organic waste on industrial scale, and converts waste into valuable chemicals and materials which it sells to mfgs. Enjoy the show! myclimatejourney.co/ctss-episodes/…

Four years after Andreessen Horowitz raised its first bio fund, the #VC shop is launching its third #biotech- and #healthcare-focused fund. At $750 million, Bio Fund III is a16z’s biggest fund of its kind yet bit.ly/2RZdq1v @amirahalidrus @FierceBiotech @a16z #startups

The march toward a bio-based economy is relentless. It's not just happening in food & ag; it's happening in fuels, chemistry, and materials, including bioplastics. This is a big sign of the times from @Genomatica: synbiobeta.com/genomatica-hit…

Last week, we welcomed our portfolio companies to the @FieldMuseum for our annual CEO Summit! We believe that by supporting early-stage cleantech startups and entrepreneurs we can solve environmental challenges, create jobs, and generate economic development.

One of the greatest life hacks is to stop watching the news. You'll be happier and much more productive.

The usual black plastic pots make the act of growing plants more wasteful than it should be. f-st.co/fzGcQgM

Volvox are microscopic photosynthetic green algae which form spherical colonies of 500-60,000 cells. They were first reported by one of the founding fathers of microbiology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1700. It's elegant dance revealed by DIC microscopy & algorithmic photography.

Our entrepreneurs are changing the world! Congrats to Boyd Venture Challenge and Vol Court winner @mobiuspbc on the company's recent AgSharks win! agupdate.com/agriview/news/…

"Inscripta Raises $125M in Series D Financing to Accelerate Commercialization of Revolutionary Digital Genome Engineering Platform" synbiobeta.com/inscripta-rais…

The wait is over—our magazine Grow is going worldwide! I could not be more excited to announce the launch of growbyginkgo.com. Head on over to order your copy of The Nature Issue, now shipping internationally for FREE 🌍✈ @growbyginkgo

Moldy fruit in foam and gemstones by Kathleen Ryan

“As Europe won in the 19th century using industry, and the U.S. won in the 20th using information technology, so China will win in the 21st using biology.” - Robert Carlson static1.squarespace.com/static/545a222…

"new [DNA] sequencing technologies such as Oxford Nanopore’s are more real-time. Real-time sequencing is a step in the “hot data storage” direction, but we still have a long way to go."synbiobeta.com/dna-is-the-fut…

"“Compared to DNA, our metabolite data has low latency, in that we can write and read data [mass spec] sets quickly from start to finish,” says Rosenstein, adding that DNA is still currently superior for encoding large data sets." newscientist.com/article/220843…

"blockchain’s architecture can store, manage, and distribute [healthcare] data. This technology can also help monitor any disruptions in production, track updates, secure authentication, and keep tabs on claims processing and financial transactions." synbiobeta.com/does-blockchai…

Microbial colonies on solid substrates such as agar grow out as a Fisher-Kolmogorov wave. On a liquid substrate, they "explode" -- a veritable little bang. Experiments of so-called microbial range expansions on liquid substrates -- journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/1…

LEGO Plans to make all its bricks from biodegradable hemp plastic by 2030 educateinspirechange.org/alternative-ne…

"the Commission published the first draft of the “Strategic Plan” for Horizon Europe which references bio-inspired and bio-integrated manufacturing as well as “enhanced information-based technologies inspired by nature and biology”." sciencebusiness.net/network-update…

The circular bioeconomy is a "nature-based solution that addresses five of our greatest environmental priorities: climate change, resource scarcity, biodiversity loss, land-use change and also food loss and waste." wbcsd.org/Programs/Circu…