Posts by Rachel Zhang

Berkeley, CA — September 24, 2025. UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) has announced the launch of the Berkeley Food Tech Ingredients Lab (BFIL), a new research and innovation hub dedicated to discovering and scaling novel plant-based ingredients that advance health, sustainability, and animal welfare. This lab expands upon the success of…

What do soft drinks, vaccines, facial cleansers, and fire extinguishers have in common? They all rely on a class of polyfunctional molecules called saponins. Saponins are so versatile that they are experiencing increasingly high demand, making their limited natural supply a crucial environmental, economic, and health problem. Just-launched startup Evergreen Saponins aims to transform this…