Sentences with phrase «synthetic chemical production»

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Some has gone to companies like Twist Bioscience, a San Francisco company developing a proprietary synthetic DNA manufacturing process to aid in diagnostics and the production of personalized medicines and sustainable chemicals.

The national standards virtually exclude the use of synthetic chemicals, antibiotics, and hormones in crop production, and prohibit the use of antibiotics and hormones in livestock production.

Unfortunately, many use harmful synthetic chemicals that may serve an industrial, production or marketing related purpose (such as ensuring a long shelf life or achieving an attractive colour) but can be harmful to your health over time.

Chemical solvents or other synthetic additives are strictly excluded from the production process.

He also says the costs of production are higher because organic farmers don't use synthetic chemicals to grow crops and that means farmers, like him, use manual labour to tackle pests and weeds.

Organic cotton production uses no synthetic chemicals or fertilisers and less water and energy than its conventional counterpart.

It's your guarantee that what you're consuming will be free of the harmful synthetic chemicals that are widely used in conventional production: endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, asthma triggers, skin irritants and more.

GSE is made by taking the pulp, not necessarily seeds, from grapefruit juice production and in a multi step industrial chemical process change the natural phenolic compounds into synthetic quaternary ammonium compounds.

As they work toward translating laboratory findings into full - scale industrial production, synthetic biologists also must have sound knowledge of good manufacturing practice; automation, chemical, and biochemical engineering; mathematics; and thermodynamics.

With genetically engineered microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, playing an increasing role in the green chemistry production of valuable chemical products including therapeutic drugs, advanced biofuels and biodegradable plastics from renewables, Cas9 is emerging as an important genome - editing tool for practitioners of synthetic biology.

So, could we go in and use targeted synthetic biology or chemical interference approaches to stop the production of methane?

Non-exclusive licenses are available for research and sale of products and services across multiple fields including: research tools, kits, reagents; discovery of novel targets for therapeutic intervention; cell lines for discovery and screening of novel drug candidates; GMP production of healthcare products; production of industrial materials such as enzymes, biofuels and chemicals; and synthetic biology.

Prior to joining at the DOE JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at a clean technology start - up, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. where his significant achievement was using synthetic biology to develop the first microbial platform technologies enabling to unlock the potential of macroalgae as highly environmentally sustainable and cost - effective biomass for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

Synthetic biology is expected to provide major advances in the areas of biomedicine, biopharmaceuticals synthesis, biosecurity, energy and environment, sustainable chemical segment, and biomaterials / smart materials production.

Other synthetic chemicals used in food production, and found in our environment, appear to damage the thyroid gland, which secretes hormones that regulate metabolism.

One treatment is temporary chemical castration, using birth control pills, androgens (male hormones), androgen blockers, synthetic estrogens, Lupron or similar drugs that block hormone production.

Nylon is a synthetic fabric manufactured using petroleum and treated with several chemicals such as formaldehyde to prevent shrinkage, not to mention, nylon production emits harmful greenhouse gasses that linger in the environment.

They differ not only in their production processes, but also in the type of carbon fiber and its weave and, most importantly, in the chemical composition of the synthetic resin used.

These foods should not be exposed to synthetic chemicals such as fertilizers, pesticides, or antibiotics during production, should not be from genetically modified organisms, and should meet other guidelines for storage, transport, and production.

A particularly vocal group insists that we can avoid a 21st - century Malthusian crisis by transitioning wholesale to organic production — growing food without synthetic chemicals in accordance with the environmentally beneficial principles of agro-ecology.

The release of waste products from domestic and economic enterprises (burning fossil fuels, synthetic chemical use, trash production, etc.) alters the composition of the atmosphere, and gases and particulates related to these activities travel to all parts of the globe.

Lots of agri - chemicals go into the production of cloth, and synthetic dyes make up 20 % of the world's industrial pollution.

The syngas can then be used for power generation in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants or as a raw material in the chemical industry, for example in the production of synthetic fuels.

Coal is an abundant natural resource that can be used as a source of energy, as a chemical feedstock from which numerous synthetic compounds (e.g., dyes, oils, waxes, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides) can be derived, and in the production of coke for metallurgical processes.