Profile

Yield10 Bioscience is a company developing new technologies to achieve improvements in crop yield to enhance global food security. Founded in 1992 with the help of a licensing agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Metabolix, Inc. is a bioscience company with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Metabolix provides sustainable solutions to the plastic, chemical and energy industries. Oliver Peoples, Ph.D., and Anthony Sinskey, Ph.D., co-founded Metabolix after work at the that identified the elementary methods and means for engineering polyhydroxyalkanoates production in plants and bacteria, thus making them biodegradable.