Bon Vivant toasts taking $15.9M to brew up versatile animal-free dairy proteins

Lyon, France-based precision fermentation startup Bon Vivant, which is using biotech techniques to reprogram yeast microorganisms to produce animal-free milk proteins with a substantially lower environmental footprint than traditional dairy, credits clarity of strategy and execution for keeping its investors enthused at a time when raising remains a challenge for many tech founders. All the…

Shoring Up Our Supply Chains

Is the supply chain becoming more resilient since the early days of the pandemic? What is the missing link? Do we need more workers? More technology? Better processes? Or something else altogether to fix the broken pieces of our supply chain? Here at Connected World, we have looked at the inner workings of the supply…

Leak prompts NASA to postpone two ISS spacewalks

NASA has called off Thursday’s spacewalk at the International Space Station while officials continue to investigate the cause of a coolant leak involving a back-up radiator attached to the outside of Russia’s Nauka module. Another NASA spacewalk scheduled for Friday, October 20, has also been postponed. The leak was spotted earlier this week though has…