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Metabolix, Inc.

Industry:   Basic Industries - Containers/Packaging Stock Symbol:   MBLX - NASDAQ Animal Usage:   No Animal Exploitation

Company Description

Yield10 Bioscience, Inc., formerly Metabolix, Inc., is an agricultural bioscience company. The Company is focused on developing disruptive technologies for step-change improvements in crop yield for food and feed crops to enhance global food security. By working on new approaches to improve fundamental elements of plant photosynthetic efficiency and optimizing carbon metabolism to direct more carbon to seed production, the Company is advancing several yield traits it has developed in crops, such as Camelina, canola, soybean and corn. The Company concentrates on technologies that enables it to improve carbon dioxide fixation efficiency in photosynthesis and its direction to and conversion into plant matter. The Company has an additional agricultural science facility with greenhouses in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Source: GoogleFinance]

Company Website: http://www.yield10bio.com

Contact:   http://www.yield10bio.com/Contact-Us; IR: http://ir.yield10bio.com/contactUs.cfm;