News and Trends 7 Feb 2023
Evonetix closes $24M financing
Evonetix Ltd, a synthetic biology company bringing semiconductor technology to DNA synthesis, has completed a $24 million financing round, extending…
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In Depth 6 Feb 2023
The biggest private biotech investments in January 2023
The companies Asimov, BioRay Pharmaceuticals and Colossal Biosciences bagged the biggest biotech investments in January 2023. Around the world, synthetic…
In Depth 20 Jan 2023
The future of single-cell microfluidics in cell engineering
By Richard Hammond, chief technical officer at Sphere Fluidics Single-cell microfluidic-based techniques continue to be a key enabling technology for…
News and Trends 20 Dec 2022
Ribbon Biolabs milestone to lead to 2023 market entry
DNA synthesis company Ribbon Biolabs has announced the successful implementation of its InfiniSynth platform for the automated assembly of sequence-agnostic…
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Startup Scout 13 Dec 2022
Biomemory is making DNA hard drives cheap and sustainable
The world is running out of ways to store the mountains of data we produce. Biomemory is creating DNA-based hard…
News and Trends 28 Nov 2022
Biomemory raises €5M to advance DNA digital data storage solution
Biomemory, a start-up focused on DNA data synthesis and storage, has closed a €5 million ($5.2 million) seed investment for…
News and Trends 17 Nov 2022
Startup Cradle raises $5.4M to design protein machines and cell factories with AI
Cradle, a Dutch startup, has received €5.5 million ($5.4 million) in seed funding to further help scientists design and program…
In Depth 17 Oct 2022
UK grants that can give biotech startups a vital jump-start
Grants are a vital lifeline that help biotech startups get off the ground, especially for underrepresented entrepreneurs. The Women in…
News and Trends 7 Sep 2022
Lesaffre acquires genome editing company Recombia Biosciences
Lesaffre has acquired Recombia Biosciences, a biotech company based in the San Francisco Bay Area founded in 2019 based on…
News and Trends 31 Aug 2022
Anti-cancer drug created from reprogrammed yeast
Engineered yeast cells can synthetically produce the essential cancer medicine vinblastine, an international team of scientists showed in a new…
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News and Trends 17 Aug 2022
Researchers invited to apply for DNA synthesized by Evonetix’s platform
An early access program for semiconductor synthesized DNA has been opened by UK-based gene synthetic biology company, Evonetix. Evonetix’s DNA…
In Depth 11 Aug 2022
Biosecurity is synthetic biology’s most crucial ally
Synthetic biology has made it easier than ever to engineer organisms to serve our needs. But as the technology becomes…
News and Trends 19 Jul 2022
eureKARE launches synthetic biology studio network
eureKARE, a company focused on financing and building next generation biotech companies in the fields of synthetic biology, has launched…
News and Trends 23 Jun 2022
Antheia gets funding to build biomanufacturing plant
Antheia, a U.S. synthetic biology company enabling next-generation plant-inspired medicines, has announced $40 million in venture debt financing from Oxford…
News and Trends 1 Feb 2022
Ribbon Biolabs Pushes DNA Synthesis Length Limits with €18M Series A
The Viennese biotech startup Ribbon Biolabs has raised an €18M Series A round to reduce the costs of synthesizing long…
Best in Biotech 14 Jul 2021
5 Easy DIY Biology Experiments You Can Do at Home
Here are five easy DIY biology experiments to have fun at home without the need for expensive laboratory equipment. Biology…
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In Depth 23 Dec 2020
Humble Beginnings: The Origin Story of Modern Biotechnology
The history of modern biotechnology began around four decades ago with the invention of genetic engineering. Genentech, one of the…
In Depth 7 Dec 2020
Are We Still Friends? What Brexit Means for UK Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology is one of the big strengths of UK science, but can the country uphold its vantage point after…
News and Trends 15 May 2020
Synthetic Biology Could Lead to Clean Energy Using Light and Carbon Dioxide
Researchers in Germany and France have combined synthetic biology with microfluidics to create artificial photosynthetic droplets, which could lead to…
News and Trends 6 Feb 2020
Camena Bioscience Hits DNA Synthesis Milestone
Camena Bioscience has achieved a significant DNA synthesis milestone by reproducing the DNA sequence of a whole plasmid, which could…