As innovative startups in bio-based materials and chemicals reach the scale needed to make a commercial impact, Lux Research rates the field to pick the winners.
...Allylix Inc. has carved out a promising niche in the $20 billion flavor and fragrance industry by focusing on a class of organic chemicals called terpenes. Normally found only in plants,...
Allylix has introduced genes into yeast strains that, through proprietary fermentation processes, make terpene compounds for use as flavors, fragrances, anti-oxidants and other applications. Two...
Allylix uses genetically engineered yeast and proprietary fermentation technology to produce specialized “aroma chemicals” for the $1.9 billion flavor and fragrance market.
...Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working on a new all-natural insect repellent – Nootkatone - that not only keeps bugs away, it kills them.
...Allylix uses fermentation to mass-produce terpenes compounds, extremely rare and expensive to produce from their natural sources.
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A cost effective high-purity process emerges for natural terpenes. Allylix can make sustainable products on demand from inexpensive, agriculturally derived raw materials.
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San Diego company Allylix is harnessing advances in biology to produce flavors and fragrances once impossible to make in the lab.
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San Diego startup has been developing ways of getting yeast to produce complex hydrocarbon molecules called terpenes for use initially as flavor and fragrance enhancers.
...Biological synthesis of certain sorts of molecules is much more efficient than chemical synthesis. Allylix is doing this for high-priced chemicals, such as fragrances.
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