by afingentech | Feb 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Feb 2015 — AFINGEN, Inc. received a $222,694 DOE SBIR Phase I award for “Engineering robust yeasts for biorefinery applications.”The project applied APFL-related synthetic biology approaches to engineer yeast strains for improved production of high-value biofuel and... by afingentech | Oct 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Oct 2014 — Berkeley Lab announced that scientists Henrik Scheller and Dominique Loqué had launched AFINGEN® to apply a method for precisely controlling gene expression in specific plant tissues. The technology was aimed at lower-cost biofuels, improved crops, and new... by afingentech | Jul 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Jul 2014 – The 2014 R&D 100 Award recognized Tissue-Specific Cell-Wall Engineering for Biofuels and Biomaterials, a suite of precision genetic tools for improving crops used for food, biofuels, industrial polymers, and pharmaceuticals. Berkeley Lab... by afingentech | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Feb 2014 — AFINGEN, Inc. received DOE SBIR Fast-Track funding for “Generation of switchgrass plants with optimized biomass composition for biofuel production.”Federal SBIR records show $224,967 in Phase I funding and $1,499,777 in Phase II funding, for approximately...