Synthetic Biology: Recent Trends & Research

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In Depth 19 Mar 2018

How is Biotech Putting a Spring into the Step of Sportsmen and Women Around the World?

Biotech has helped the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Rafael Nadal to return to fitness after injury. What else could this technology do to help athletes around the world excel? For…

March 19, 2018 - 6 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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Best in Biotech 18 Apr 2016

Who are France’s Young Innovators in Biotech and Medicine this year?

The MIT Technology Review has released it's next generation of best and brightest in French Tech. This also includes a surprising number of Biotech entrepreneurs... The 2016 cohort of French…

April 18, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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 its total series B funding to over $54 million. This…

February 7, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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 biology players and firms developing treatments for hormonal disorders attracted…

February 6, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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 cell engineering as they allow true single-cell level working, with…

January 20, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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 and long DNA. The company achieved the milestone in collaboration…

December 20, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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 drives that could store this information cheaply, sustainably and for…

December 13, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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 the development of its technology. The seed funding round was…

November 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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 proteins to produce a wide variety of everyday products including…

November 17, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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 Synthetic Biology (WiSB) network recently gave detailed advice for helping…

October 17, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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 technology licensed from Stanford University. This acquisition is the culmination…

September 7, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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 study published in Nature. In the summer and fall of…

August 31, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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