Solazyme Sambas into Brazil with Engineered Algae that Crave Sweets

Solazyme is a South San Francisco company that makes oil from microalgae. Instead of providing sunlight and carbon dioxide for direct photosynthesis, Solazyme feeds the algae sugars from various biomass feedstocks in the absence of light using fermentation tanks. Solazyme recently signed a deal with Bunge, a large Brazilian agribusiness company, to build an algae [...] Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote...