Food, crops, chemicals, materials, and minerals made with biology, built to compete with incumbents on cost and performance.

The bioeconomy is a lot bigger than human health. Biology is a manufacturing platform, and it already makes things you touch every day: the protein in your food, the crops in the field, the surfactant in your shampoo, the plastic in your packaging, the copper in your phone.

BioSolutions covers that side of the industry across five areas. Food ingredients made by fermentation and engineered biology instead of animals or extraction. Agricultural biologicals that protect crops, feed them, and help them handle stress, plus the genetics that build those traits into the seed. Chemicals, polymers, and materials built from renewable feedstocks instead of crude. Personal care ingredients with a defined molecule and a known mechanism behind the claim. And engineered organisms that recover critical minerals from low-grade ore or break down contamination in soil and water.

What these companies share is who they’re up against. Petrochemicals, animal agriculture, conventional mining, and synthetic chemistry are cheap, scaled, and very good at what they do. Clearing that bar means matching them on cost per unit and performance in real production, at volume. This theme is about the companies and technologies doing it.