Biotechnology

L’Oréal invests in Swiss longevity biotech company Timeline

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L’Oréal invests in Swiss longevity biotech company Timeline

Global beauty leader L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Timeline, a Swiss consumer health biotech company specialising in longevity.
Beauty : Health : Wellness
Start-up Retro Biosciences wants humans to live 10 years longer

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Start-up Retro Biosciences wants humans to live 10 years longer

Silicon Valley’s most secretive longevity start-up, Retro Biosciences, is finally pulling back the curtains after two years of operating in near se...
Luxury : Health & Wellness : Society
Synthesised Beauty

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Synthesised Beauty

The visual language of conscious beauty is being redefined as the rise of biotechnology and digital innovation inspires creatives to re-imagine wha...
Beauty : Biotechnology : Digital
Brand Innovation Debrief: Hæckels

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Brand Innovation Debrief: Hæckels

With trailblazing in-house biotech and lab-grown ingredients, Hæckels is evolving into more than just a beauty brand.
Beauty : Sustainability : Technology
Supermarkets in 2050

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Supermarkets in 2050

In just 30 years, we can expect supermarkets to facilitate bio-hacking, offer store-grown personalised foods and provide planet-friendly recommenda...
Food : Health : Wellness
Five Luxury Fashion Brands Advancing Biotechnology

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Five Luxury Fashion Brands Advancing Biotechnology

Luxury fashion houses are increasingly recognising the potential of biotechnology and experimenting with bio-textiles for a more sustainable future.
Fashion : Technology : Luxury
Biotech can Drive Beauty beyond Plant-based Ingredient-sourcing

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Biotech can Drive Beauty beyond Plant-based Ingredient-sourcing

Jasmina Aganovic, CEO of Arcaea, explains how biotechnology can help source and develop more ethical and intelligent ingredients.
Beauty : Science : Technology
Lululemon captures carbon to create eco-friendly fabrics

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Lululemon captures carbon to create eco-friendly fabrics

As part of its ongoing environmental efforts, activewear brand Lululemon is partnering with biotechnology company LanzaTech to recycle carbon emiss...
Technology : Sustainability : Sports & Leisure
A regenerative desert escape for biohackers

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A regenerative desert escape for biohackers

Global architecture practice, Superficium Studio has conceptualised a modifiable commune for biohacker communities.
Technology : Media : Architecture
Bolt Threads exchanges eco-leathers for brand expertise

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Bolt Threads exchanges eco-leathers for brand expertise

Fashion brands Adidas, Lululemon, Kering and Stella McCartney team up with biotechnology start-up Bolt Threads to scale up Mylo mushroom leather.
Fashion : Sustainability : Biotechnology
Scientists develop tattoos to monitor our health

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Scientists develop tattoos to monitor our health

The tattoo changes colour as certain properties in the blood spike or decline.
Technology : Health : Wellness
Biodegradable data is starting to grow up

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Biodegradable data is starting to grow up

Monika Seyfried and Cyrus Clarke discuss their project Grow Your Own Cloud, a speculative service that helps consumers store their data – in the DN...
Technology : Health : Wellness
Will biochips revolutionise finance and data-sharing?

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Will biochips revolutionise finance and data-sharing?

Skin-embedded microchips will transform how we share data, gain access to spaces, travel and even protect our finances. Jowan Österlund, founder an...
Finance : Technology : Workplace
Social capitalism and digital colonialism at Me Convention 2018

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Social capitalism and digital colonialism at Me Convention 2018

Speakers at this year’s Me Convention in Stockholm ruminated on our relationship with technology, Silicon Valley’s negative effects and why social ...
Female Futures : Sustainability : Biotechnology
Bio-ink could radically change food labelling

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Bio-ink could radically change food labelling

Paul Yong and JJ Ismail, co-founders of Malaysian creative studio Aesthetid, discuss their project Honest Egg and how a preprogrammed ink has the p...
Food : Drink : Biotechnology
Christina Agapakis on the beauty to be found in biotech design

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Christina Agapakis on the beauty to be found in biotech design

Ginkgo Bioworks’ creative director explains how bacteria can be genetically engineered to create sustainable products that hold an aesthetic as wel...
Fashion : Biotechnology : Product Design
Navigating the ethics of lab-grown materials

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Navigating the ethics of lab-grown materials

Designer Christina Haxholm discusses how synthetic biology can create a more sustainable fashion industry, and brands can help propel future uses.
Fashion : Biotechnology : Materials
The material revolution at Milan's Salone 2018

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The material revolution at Milan's Salone 2018

From sound-emitting glass to food as an interface, Salone del Mobile 2018 showcased a host of new material innovations that could shape the future ...
Material : Biotechnology : Packaging
Biofabricate: Review

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Biofabricate: Review

At the annual summit for the emerging world of grown materials, speakers revealed how biotechnology is facilitating a new material revolution.
Biotechnology : Material Futures : New York
Genetic garments

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Genetic garments

UK – Central Saint Martins graduate project Pure Human raises questions about the legal ownership of biological materials.
Pure Human : CSM Graduate Show 2016 : Biotechnology
Central Saint Martins Material Futures Work in Progress Show 2016

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Central Saint Martins Material Futures Work in Progress Show 2016

This year's stand-out projects from the MA Material Futures course proposed turning our bodies into complex interfaces.
MA Material Futures : Design Fiction : Biotechnology
Bio-beauty: next-gen naturals

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Bio-beauty: next-gen naturals

As supplies of raw ingredients dwindle biotechnology will step in and challenge beauty brands and consumers to forge new definitions of natural.
Biotechnology : Beauty Futures : Natural Beauty
Room for discovery

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Room for discovery

Bristol – The Rooms festival invited visitors to explore alternate technological futures through a series of interactive installations, workshops ...
The Rooms : Serendipity : Suprise
Bistro In Vitro

Design Directions

Bistro In Vitro

A fictional restaurant imagines the future of in-vitro meat.
In Vitro : Meat : Dutch
Loop.pH: Designing with science

Design Directions

Loop.pH: Designing with science

Working across the fields of biotechnology and energy and temporary architecture, Loop.pH translates cutting-edge research into ephemeral environ...
Whole System Thinking : Energy : Architecture
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