Biotechnology is not a four-letter word. But scientifically-challenged naysayers have been disparaging the science for years.

Arcaea Founder and CEO Jasmina Aganovic called biotechnology “a living factory.”  Today, beauty industry creates traditional, chemistry-derived ingredients with machinery. But in biotechnology, the factory is a living cell, she explained.

Biotechnology enables formulators to reconstruct cells to obtain what they need, without expensive equipment. Biotech is less limiting, less constraining and more sustainable, she added.

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