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Debut Biotech teams up with DIC to explore novel, ‘cell-free’ approach to biomanufacturing natural food colors Fine chemicals co DIC has teamed up with San Diego-based startup Debut Biotech to develop color ingredients via a novel ‘cell-free’ biomanufacturing platform, which it claims could enable the biosynthesis of colors that are “hard to find or even inaccessible in nature.” The first food colors were made from plants, but were gradually replaced by petrochemical-derived artificial colors such as Red #40 or Yellow #5, thanks to advances in synthetic...

Ingredients giant DSM has teamed up with San Diego-based startup Debut Biotech to explore the potential of its ‘cell-free’ biomanufacturing platform, a next-generation manufacturing process it claims could unlock new opportunities to biosynthesize a far wider set of natural ingredients, transforming low-value bio-renewable materials into high-value specialty ingredients. The agreement will enable a proof of concept opportunity for Debut Biotech’s cell-free platform, which will be used to create natural ingredients for use in personal health, food, and lifesty...