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Targeted Growth Tinkers with Genes to See If Algae Can Fulfill Biofuel Potential
Luke Timmerman [[Correction 10:40 am Pacific: Targeted Growth's camelina program currently uses traditional breeding, not genetic engineering techniques like those for its algae biofuel program.]]...
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Cell Therapeutics Nabs $30M, Rick Klausner on Vaccines, Targeted Growth...
Luke Timmerman Somebody forgot to tell the Northwest biotech community this is the height of vacation season. Our pages this week were packed with stories on financings, clinical trials, exclusive...
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PhaseRx Angles for a Deal, Tom Clement’s New Device Gig(s), InDi’s...
Luke Timmerman My head is spinning from the whirlwind of presentations and hobnobbing at this year’s Life Science Innovation Northwest. The regional biotech showcase drew by far the most people in its...
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Separating Hype From Reality in Alternative Fuels: Mark Your Calendars for...
Luke Timmerman Energy independence and reducing greenhouse gas emissions were big issues in the last couple Presidential elections. Yet, if you look around town in 2011, it’s still the norm to see...
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Open Source Biology’s Moment, Mirador Advances the Runner, Allen’s Latest...
Luke Timmerman We had an eclectic news mix this week, with features on medical devices, open source biology and an innovation story from the East Side of the Cascades. —Sage Bionetworks, the...
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Separating Hype from Reality in Alternative Fuels: Slated for May 19 at...
Luke Timmerman If clean-burning renewables are ever going to replace fossil fuels at the corner fueling station, it will probably require a rethinking of the biofuel production process at the basic...
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Life Science Discovery Fund Faces Cuts, Boeing’s Biofuel Push, SeaGen’s...
Luke Timmerman We’ve got biofuel on the brain here at Xconomy as we prep for our next big event. —Boeing and Alaska Airlines are taking the lead on a regional network that wants to turn the Northwest...
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Al Gore’s Favorite Waste-to-Energy Company On Deck for Xconomy May 19 Event
Luke Timmerman Poke around a little bit here on the West Coast, and you can find some fascinating people working on big alternative fuel ideas that are below the public radar. You’d never know it, but...
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What Do Amazon, Ezell’s, and Virginia Mason Have in Common? They Supply...
Luke Timmerman Biodiesel made from leftover kitchen grease isn’t going to wean the country off fossil fuels, but at least one Seattle-based company has shown there’s a market for this stuff, and...
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Blue Marble Energy Joins Ensemble Cast at Alternative Fuels Confab May 19
Luke Timmerman Oil, one of my college buddies who majored in chemical engineering once told me, is in everything. He was talking about not just the fuel that goes in your car, but also the...
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Matrix Genetics Pursues the Algae Fuel Dream in the Lab, Not With Big Steel...
Luke Timmerman Margaret McCormick has been dreaming of ways to make microorganisms do big things since her grad school days in biology at MIT. Years later, the scientist-turned-venture capitalist is...
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Geospiza Sells to PerkinElmer, PATH Vaccine Nabs $100M, Halosource Gets China...
Luke Timmerman We had one pretty noteworthy acquisition in the Bio/IT community this week, and a smattering of news items from the world of global health, biotech drugs, and biofuels. —Seattle-based...
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Bill Gates’ Favorite Biofuel Company on the Docket for Thursday’s Alternative...
Luke Timmerman There might be 100 good energy ideas in the U.S. today, as Bill Gates said last week at a fundraiser for Climate Solutions, but one of the really big ones he’s backing is San...
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Boeing’s NW Biofuel Strategy, Kleiner Perkins’ Natural Gas Startup & More on...
Luke Timmerman Gas is selling for more than $4 a gallon, and consumers are hopping mad. Even though we’ve all seen this movie before, nobody has yet made a serious impact with alternatives that power...
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See You Tonight at “Separating Hype from Reality in Alternative Fuels”
Luke Timmerman Gas is $4 a gallon, consumers are steaming, the oil companies keep getting tax breaks, and alternative fuels are still a long way from reaching the consumer masses. What’s going on...
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Electric Cars Won’t Take Over, Biofuels 3.0 Must Fix the Bugs, &...
Curt Woodward We had a great time at our latest Xconomy Seattle event, “Separating Hype from Reality in Alternative Fuels,” held last night at the new Institute for Systems Biology headquarters in...
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Separating Hype from Reality in Alternative Fuels: the Photo Gallery
Curt Woodward Even though the sun was finally out in Seattle, dozens of folks from the worlds of cleantech, life sciences and high tech got together to share thoughts and network at Xconomy’s latest...
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Matrix Genetics Snags Investment from Avista for Algae Biofuel
Luke Timmerman Matrix Genetics is pursuing the dream of turning algae into the workhorses of oil production, and now it has gotten some financing to go after it. The Seattle-based startup, led by...
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Matrix Genetics Emerges from Algae Biofuel Wilderness With a Partner
Luke Timmerman Matrix Genetics is one of those startups that never really got off the ground in its early days, but never died, either. While the Seattle-based company lived on fumes at various points...
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Algae Biomass Advocates Push Past Exuberance, Aim for Sustainability
Angela Shah Ice shut down Houston for the second time in five days recently, a weather event that, in its sheer strangeness, seemed a fitting backdrop for a gathering of alternative fuel advocates in...
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