As we recover from Super Bowl Sunday and several feet of snow, we give you our weekly round up of new things video and biotechnology.  This week we’ve got a couple of biotech CEO’s and a company whose goal is to solve world hunger.  And we learn that biotech tastes like chicken.  Go figure.

Meet Matt Caspari – I always enjoy meeting founders of biotechnology companies.  They never cease to impress me.  I’m not just blowing smoke.  Sure they can be a bit cocky (understatement).  But you can’t beat them when it comes to intelligence, willingness to take risks, and thinking big.  This video features Matt Caspari.  Watch (and listen) as Matt walks through his approach and vision for Aurora Biofuels.  See how biotech is made.

Syngenta Takes Stock – And is doing that very well.  Here’s a report by Bloomberg featuring Michael Mack, chief executive officer of Syngenta AG. The world’s biggest maker of agricultural chemicals today reported better-than expected profit last year, buoyed by demand for genetically modified seeds.

Funny Name, Cool Stuff – The name is it4ip s.a.  It is a Belgian start-up.  Here’s the cool stuff.  It develops, manufactures and commercializes precision membranes based on track etching technology.  This is an old video but it was new to us.  Check them out here.

The Truth About Monsanto – Here’s the latest from Monsanto.  If you’ve been trolling around the blogosphere on GMOs lately you may have come across all sorts of scary stories and crazy accusations about Monsanto suing farmers.  Well, here’s the ‘real’ story.   Garrett Kasper cuts through the misinformation and explains what the fuss is all about.

Biotech … Tastes Like Chicken – At least after Fu-Hung Hsieh, a Missouri University professor of biological engineering and food science gets through with it. His soy substitute for chicken is much like the real thing, including having health benefits like lowering cholesterol and maintaining healthy bones.

Here’s the Plan – That is the strategic plan for BBSRC, the British-based bioscience company.  This is a company that doesn’t set the bar low.  Their goal: feeding 9 billion people sustainably by 2050.  Remember we said we liked biotech companies because of their willingness to think big?

Davos, Sustainability, and Biotechnology – A note that this is a long video and it talks about a lot more than biotechnology.  But an interesting dialogue of CEOs on sustainability, job growth and … occasionally … biotechnology.