Cannabinoid-focused biotechnology company Demetrix announced Thursday it secured $50 million in a Series A funding round led by Tuatara Capital. Another investor is Horizons Ventures, which previously ...

Whether or not you partake in the $30 billion legal cannabis market, the legalization of cannabis in parts of the U.S. and Canada has helped to destigmatize and legalize the use of the cannabinoid ...

BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Demetrix, Inc., a biotechnology company that makes safe, legal, and effective cannabinoids, took another major step towards commercialization today, ...

Researchers at the Berkeley-based startup Demetrix have engineered yeast to produce a variety of cannabinoids using less water, land and energy than traditional farming methods. Co-founded by UC ...

Demetrix has raised $50 million in a first round of venture funding to establish high-volume fermentation production of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD), and other cannabinoids. Backers ...

Demetrix – one of a new wave of biotech firms producing cannabinoids via biosynthesis (rather than extracting them from cannabis plants) – has commenced 15,000-liter demo-scale fermentation production ...

With skyrocketing demand for consumer products and renewed research into its medicinal value, cannabis is having a moment. The quasi-legalization of marijuana created a gold rush for the industry, and ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif., March 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Demetrix, Inc., a company with world-class expertise in producing nature's ingredients using fermentation, today announced entry into an exclusive ...

It’s 2021 and regular THC isn’t going to cut it for the budding weed industry. Neither will CBD. Instead, a host of startups are betting that weed consumers will be clamoring for something that nature ...

Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have for the first time created cannabis compounds in a lab, instead of by harvesting them from a plant. They detailed their work, which uses ...

The yeast that people have used for millennia to brew alcoholic drinks has now been engineered to produce cannabinoids — chemicals with medicinal and sometimes mind-altering properties found in ...