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News and Trends 4 Aug 2017

Demo Day: Meet the Latest Generation of Synbio Startups from RebelBio

The RebelBio startups of 2017 reach a major milestone as 15 young companies came forward to explain their ideas, science and how they are selling them. A mere 3 months after the 15 chosen projects for the RebelBio accelerator went off to the labs to refine their prototypes, Demo Day arrived last week on July […]

August 4, 2017 - 6 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 28 Jul 2017

Things are Looking Up for UK Synbio Clusters, says Report

A survey of synbio startups in the last 16 years shows that the UK ecosystem is growing rapidly and approaching critical mass, says SynbiCITE. Dedicated to championing industrial uptake of synthetic biology, SynbiCITE is a knowledge center based at Imperial College London. Some of its initiatives have included opening a gene foundry last year to providing grants to […]

July 28, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 10 Jul 2017

You can buy DNA on Amazon, thanks to this Biotech Accelerator

Steve O’Connell from RebelBio spoke to us about how far consumer biotech has come and synbio’s role in its democratization. Steve Jobs famously predicted that biology would one day go the way of computing and become available to the ordinary consumer. How is it progressing? “It’s already happening,” Steve O’Connell, Associate Director of RebelBio, told Philip […]

July 10, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

More News! 27 Jun 2017

Green Biotech Enters Partnership to Advance the Infinite Recycling of Plastics

Carbios has teamed up with TechnipFMC in order to move Carbios’ enzymatic recycling process for PET plastics from the laboratory to the pilot scale. French Carbios is looking to combat the limits of current thermo-mechanical recycling processes using an enzyme-based degradation process that paves the way to infinite recycling of PET. The annual production of PET, one […]

June 27, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

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News and Trends 6 Jun 2017

Imperial College Moves its Startup Incubator to a Bigger Facility in West London

Last Friday, the Duke of York opened Imperial’s newest facilities in the White City campus, where the university is relocating its startup incubator. Imperial College’s startup incubator, previously located at Imperial’s South Kensington campus, just got a significant upgrade with brand new facilities that opened last week in Imperial College’s White City campus. The new space, aptly renamed the White City […]

June 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 19 May 2017

Shining new Light on how to control Cell Circuits

Controlling genes with light is a new therapeutic avenue, and researchers from Finland are exploring how it can be used to tinker with the cell’s biochemical circuitry. Their findings could provide a better understanding of degenerative diseases and yield new cancer treatments. Researchers from the Turku Centre for Biotechnology at the University of Turku and Åbo […]

May 19, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 9 May 2017

Hypermutation could be the Key to Biofuels – and Antibiotic Resistance

Instead of taking a spa vacation, stressed out bacteria start mutating their DNA fast. This nearly suicidal behavior can yield a lucky survivor in nature. For us, it could mean new strategies for biofuel production and fighting antibiotic resistance, researchers say. Researchers from the Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics at KU Leuven, in Belgium, are shining […]

May 9, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 28 Apr 2017

The Tires of the Future will be made with… Dandelions?

Continental, famous producer of tires, is creating a research facility in Germany to investigate the use of rubber extracted from dandelions. An eventual switch to the material would mean less environmental impact, and maybe even better tires. The “green pet project” of Continental, a giant automotive manufacturer with almost €40Bn yearly revenues, consists of replacing conventional natural […]

April 28, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 13 Apr 2017

Belgian Research takes first steps to make Biofuel out of Grass

Researchers from the University of Ghent are using bacteria to turn grass into chemicals for bioplastics and biofuel. Could this process be scaled up to fuel planes? A grass bioconversion project is being developed at the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET) of the University of Ghent, and it has recently taken an important step forward. […]

April 13, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 10 Apr 2017

Swiss-Danish Collaboration will use Synbio to Produce a B Vitamin

Two startups in the fields of synthetic biology, Biosyntia and FGen, have struck a partnership to identify promising microbial strains. The objective is to find a strain that enables bioproduction of a B vitamin. The driving force of this new partnership between Biosyntia, Denmark, and ETH Zurich, and brands itself as a CRO for biologics […]

April 10, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

More News! 4 Apr 2017

SynBioBeta Launches Venture Fund for Synthetic Biology Startups

US-based venture capital fund Data Collective has announced that it is partnering with SynBioBeta to launch a new synthetic biology venture fund. Data Collective will join forces with SynBioBeta founder John Cumbers to launch the DCVC SynBioBeta fund, a pre-seed and seed VC fund to invest in synthetic biology startups. John Cumbers, an expert on […]

April 4, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 31 Mar 2017

French Synbio Company gets ready to break into Cosmetics

After biofuels and carotenoids, Deinove is now moving forward on the cosmetics front. Its engineered microbes can produce a number of interesting chemicals for skin care, and Deinove plans to bring them to market until the end of 2018. Deinove is a key synbio biotech in France and has found a wide range of applications for […]

March 31, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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