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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Codexis lays off 133, hires new CFO

Codexis Inc., a company that makes environmentally friendly chemicals, fuels and pharmaceutical processes, said Tuesday it will lay off 133 people. The layoffs are necessary because the Redwood City-based company is ending an agreement it had with Royal Dutch Shell Plc and will lose ongoing funding, a statement from the company said.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Shell transfers stake in biofuels company Codexis to Raizen

Royal Dutch Shell has sold its 15.7 percent stake in Codexis to Raizen Energia Participacoes S.A., the $12 billion biofuels joint venture Shell has with Cosan Limited.
Raizen is now Codexis' largest shareholder and can appoint a member to the Codexis board of directors.
Codexis, based in Redwood City, produces enzymes that break down renewable materials or sugars and convert them into fuels.

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Some of my favorite stories.

• "The fight of his life" (2007)

Last year Mike Homer helped raise the money for 2,000 medical research computers. Now researchers are using that equipment in an attempt to save his life.

• "For reporter, CJD is more than a story" (2007)

Seven years ago -- nearly to the day -- my mother died of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease.

• "A son's YouTube plea for Avastin" (2010)

Josh Turnage is your typical teenager, trying to discover what he wants to do in college and with his life. But a 7-minute, 41-second YouTube video he produced about his mother's fight with breast cancer may thrust him into a debate between drug makers and the agency that regulates them.

• "New device could knock out old dialysis technology" (2011)

Shuvo Roy has all the makings for the world's first implantable artificial kidney, thanks to nanotechnology and a web of nationwide collaborations.

All he needs now is $20 million.