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Amyris

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2012: Top 50, Biotech

2011: Top 50, Biotech

Stories about Amyris

The Rise And Fall Of The Company That Was Going To Have Us All Using Biofuels

Amyris’s breakthroughs in bioengineering–and its plans to make biofuels from Brazilian sugarcane–promised to transform how the world’s businesses produce energy, cosmetics, and medicine. Then reality (and Wall Street) got in the way.

The Rise And Fall Of The Company That Was Going To Have Us All Using Biofuels

10.18.11 | 12:40 am

Renewable Rubber The Next Step For Truly Oil-Free Cars

Impact

10 minutes reflecting on who helped you succeed can transform your idea of the meritocracy

This company will turn your garage into an apartment for free—and help you rent it out

The Ocean Cleanup device has returned from the Pacific Garbage Patch with its first load of plastic

Creativity

The Billboard 200 chart will now include video plays from YouTube, Apple, and Spotify

Burger King offers free Whoppers if you can stomach ‘Star Wars’ spoilers

Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ uses national hostility toward media (and women) to its advantage

Co.Design

Pink for girls and blue for boys? What toymakers get wrong about gender

This corporate holiday card is a lot cooler than yours

The London Underground’s logo gets an inspired redesign

Work Life

These are the workplace trends that give us hope

Try these five tricks to do a day’s worth in just a couple of hours

This is how pay data can get the wage gap wrong