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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

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How a grassroots group of moms helped push Walmart and other chains to act on guns

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Creativity

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Co.Design

This startup wants to rebrand acne care by highlighting zits, not hiding them

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Work Life

This is why feminism needs to be the future

This is what happened when two companies swapped offices—and countries

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