Archives from August 2009

DOE Awards SBIR to Zymetis

Zymetis announced today that it has received its first Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the Department of Energy.  The $100,000 award will fund Zymetis work on Optimal Substrate-Specific Hemicellulase Enzyme Mixtures. 

One advantage of Zymetis technology is that its enzyme mixtures are derived from a single organism.  The organism has an arsenal of almost 90 different plant digesting enzymes capable of reducing practically any plant-based biomass into its constituent sugars.  Because they are produced by one organism, each enzyme works perfectly together to acheive more...