Exploring Biotech: Video Resources

The Biotechnology Careers video series highlights the wide range of problems that biotechnology can be used to solve. From human health to sustainable fashion to plant-based meats to agriculture and climate change, biotech professionals are applying knowledge of the inner workings of living organisms to design innovative solutions to important problems. 

A student looks through a microscope

Pivot Bio

Pivot Bio has transformed the way fertilizer is produced and used by the world’s farmers. From their environmentally sound fermentation production process to their zero waste and zero footprint, Pivot Bio’s microbes offer farmers a more efficient and sustainable nitrogen to fuel their crops.

Bolt Threads

Bolt Threads is a material solutions company. With nature as their inspiration, they invent cutting-edge materials for the fashion and beauty industries to put us on a path toward a more sustainable future.

Impossible Foods

Impossible’s mission is to make the global food system truly sustainable by eliminating the need to make food from animals. Why? Animal agriculture uses a tremendous amount of the world’s natural resources. In 2016, IF launched its first product, Impossible™ Burger Made From Plants. It’s delicious, nutritious, and made using but a small fraction of the land, water and energy required to make meat from a cow.

Bayer

Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With its innovative products, Bayer is contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time.

About Exploring Biotech

This series was created through a partnership with 6th grade students and teachers in Berkeley and San Leandro, California and was made possible with funding from the Bayer Fund. The videos are part of instructional resources for middle school classrooms, and were used in conjunction with hands-on biotech activities. We will be adding additional resources related to these experiences soon.

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