Food (Biological Engineering)

Spirited Engineering: An Introduction to Distilled Spirits Production

cms_emilf — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:00:55 +0000

The production of distilled spirits — like vodka, tequila, and whiskey — has fascinating ties to chemical engineering.

May

2025

Building Flavor into Cultivated Meat

Gennady Shafirovich — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:51:01 +0000

September

2024

Cultured meat could get a flavor boost from a new compound that releases a mouth-watering taste upon heating.

CEP: News Update

Gennady Shafirovich — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:37:41 +0000

Exploring Hydrogen for Short-Range Flight; Sequestering NOx in Concrete Could Net Economic Benefits; A 3D-Printed "Forest" to Desalinate Seawater; Building Flavor into Cultivated Meat; Shocking the Soil to Instantly Degrade PFAS;

September

2024

Catalyzing Commercialization: High-Carotenoid Orange Corn Promises Nutritional Enhancement

Karen Simpson — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:18:35 +0000

An IN-based small business is transforming the world’s most-produced staple crop — corn — into an enhanced platform for delivering better nutrition.

July

2024

Meat-Rice Hybrid Overcomes Some of Cultivated Meat’s Challenges

Karen Simpson — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:46:48 +0000

April

2024

Meat cells grown on a scaffold of rice grains could represent the dawning of a new food group: plantmeat hybrids.

CEP: News Update

Karen Simpson — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:46:37 +0000

‘Power Plants’ Harvest Energy from Rain and Wind; New Machine-Learning Method to Speed 91��˶��Ƶ Discovery; Making Glass Photoconductive; Artificial Photosynthesis to Make the Building Blocks of Green Plastics; Meat-Rice Hybrid Overcomes Some of Cultivated Meat’s Challenges; Vanadium Scrubbers Could Pull Carbon Dioxide from Air

April

2024

91��˶��Ƶ Engineering Reimagined: Creating Ideas That Get to the Marketplace

Cody Hirashima — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:58:45 +0000

This panel will feature academics that have successfully translated their research into the marketplace, entrepreneurs, incubators and venture capitalists. All will talk about the current global challenges that they see that need to be solved, how they entered this realm and the challenges they faced, and advice for others in the field looking to commercialize their ideas more efficiently.

ICME Speaker Vanessa Ridaura on Microbiome Interventions for Maternal and Child Health

Sonja Bradfield — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:54:32 +0000

October 23, 2023

Learn what Ridaura of the Gates Foundation will speak about at the conference and hear about some of the new technologies affecting her work.

Developing Genetically Engineered Brewing Strains with Lallemand

Sonja Bradfield — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:12:35 +0000

June 12, 2023

Hear from researcher Bailey Carignan about Lallemand’s specialized work, genetic engineering’s potential, and about improving consumers' understanding of genetically engineered microbes.

Industry Interviews

Catalyzing Commercialization: Corn Zein-Based Edible Coatings Reduce Fresh Produce Waste

Karen Simpson — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 21:31:20 +0000

Akorn Technology has developed a composite coating that is ideal for highly perishable, globally produced crops.

June

2023

Lab-Grown Meat Just Got Tastier

Karen Simpson — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 21:29:48 +0000

June

2023

Growing fat cells in thin sheets may be the key to making lab-grown meat tasty and inexpensive.

CEP: News Update

Karen Simpson — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 21:29:40 +0000

Same Looms, New "Smart" Textiles; Lab-Grown Meat Just Got Tastier; Novel Device Captures Solar Energy for Hydrogen Production; Using Nanomotion to Test for Antibiotic Resistance

June

2023

Catalyzing Commercialization: Gene Editing Promises New Disease-Resistant Citrus Trees

Karen Simpson — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:14:31 +0000

Disease-resistant citrus trees are being developed using CRISPR precision Breeding.

July

2022

Gene Editing Could Make Veggies a Source of Vitamin D

Karen Simpson — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:12:30 +0000

July

2022

Plants provide little to no vitamin D, but one medium-sized tomato from a gene-edited plant contained as much vitamin D as two medium eggs or about 1 oz (28 g) of tuna.

CEP: News Update

Karen Simpson — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:12:20 +0000

Gene Editing Could Make Veggies a Source of Vitamin D; Scientists Create a Pacemaker that Dissolves Over Time; Don’t Expect 91��˶��Ƶ Accuracy From Marijuana Labels

July

2022

Food (Biological Engineering)

Spirited Engineering: An Introduction to Distilled Spirits Production

Building Flavor into Cultivated Meat

CEP: News Update

Catalyzing Commercialization: High-Carotenoid Orange Corn Promises Nutritional Enhancement

Meat-Rice Hybrid Overcomes Some of Cultivated Meat’s Challenges

CEP: News Update

91���˶���Ƶ Engineering Reimagined: Creating Ideas That Get to the Marketplace

ICME Speaker Vanessa Ridaura on Microbiome Interventions for Maternal and Child Health

Developing Genetically Engineered Brewing Strains with Lallemand

Catalyzing Commercialization: Corn Zein-Based Edible Coatings Reduce Fresh Produce Waste

Lab-Grown Meat Just Got Tastier

CEP: News Update

Catalyzing Commercialization: Gene Editing Promises New Disease-Resistant Citrus Trees

Gene Editing Could Make Veggies a Source of Vitamin D

CEP: News Update

91��˶��Ƶ Engineering Reimagined: Creating Ideas That Get to the Marketplace