Synthetic Biology: Recent Trends & Research

Best in Biotech 28 Dec 2017

Bored Between the Holidays? Watch these Biotech Videos!

Christmas might have passed, but we have more videos for you to watch on a dreary winter day! Here are our highlights from 2017. It’s vacation time! If you’ve worn out the holiday movies, catch up on our biotech ones. It was a busy year, and we produced a lot, thanks to our new Hangouts […]

December 28, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

DNA Tetris Bixels Cell Free Technologies

News and Trends 27 Nov 2017

You Can Now Play DNA Tetris Thanks to This Irish Startup

How cool would it be to program DNA at home to make gifs or play Tetris? Well, this device will soon let you do just that. Cell-Free Technologies wants to take synthetic biology out of the lab and into our homes. This startup based in Cork, Ireland, takes the molecular machinery that cells use to read […]

November 27, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 24 Nov 2017

British SynBio Startup Lands $3.6M for AI-Driven Protein Engineering

LabGenius is using synthetic biology to develop new materials. The funding allows the biotech to set up its own research facility to develop its platform. LabGenius, a new biotech startup based in London, is using artificial intelligence (AI) to drive the development of new materials. This morning, the company has announced that it has received […]

November 24, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

In Depth 23 Nov 2017

The Future is (Syn)Bio: How and when do we get there?

Last week, Philip and I attended a meeting with some of the pioneers and leaders of the synthetic biology field. They believe biology will be everywhere in the future, but how do we get ready for it? Digital technologies are now present in almost all aspects of our lives. It seems obvious today that companies […]

November 23, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 5 Oct 2017

Synbio adds Softness: Robots of the Future will be Squishy

As AI and machine learning approach biotech, synthetic biology is approaching soft robotics. What is it bringing to the field? Conventional rigid-bodied robots are used to perform specific single tasks efficiently but often with limited adaptability when it comes to interacting with humans. During the past few years, soft robots made of highly pliable materials […]

October 5, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

bayer ginkgo bioworks plant microbiome biotech

News and Trends 15 Sep 2017

Bayer Launches Plant Microbiome Biotech with a Huge €84M Series A

Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks are launching a new company that will develop new technologies for sustainable agriculture by engineering the plant microbiome. With the microbiome already gaining traction in the therapeutics field, Bayer has decided to take it to agriculture. In partnership with US synthetic biology upstart Ginkgo Bioworks, the German giant is creating a new […]

September 15, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 12 Sep 2017

French Startup Raises €11M in Series A to Reinvent DNA Synthesis

DNA Script has gathered the support of key international investors to take a new, faster DNA synthesis technology closer to the market. In a Series A round led by Illumina Ventures and joined by Merck Ventures and existing investors Sofinnova Partners, Kurma Partners, and Idinvest Partners, the young French startup DNA Script has raised a total […]

September 12, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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

Interview 13 Jul 2017

Meet Denmark’s Youngest Professor and Serial Synbio Entrepreneur

Philip sat down to chat with Professor and serial entrepreneur Morten Sommer about his career in the second Labiotech Hangout. At 35, Morten Sommer is not only the youngest full professor ever in Denmark but also the entrepreneur behind a number of synbio-based companies. For Labiotech’s second Hangout on June 29th, Philip probed his thoughts […]

July 13, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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

Interview 21 Jun 2017

Video: Can Synbio Cure Malaria? – Fireside Chat with Oxitec’s CEO Hadyn Parry

In our fireside chat with Hadyn Parry, Clara had the chance to hear all about Oxitec’s exciting technology that could save us from Dengue and Zika. Oxitec’s GM mosquitoes have the potential to halt epidemics of mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika or Dengue, which according to Hadyn are actually causing more problems every year. As Hadyn explained, “we’re […]

June 21, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

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Bored Between the Holidays? Watch these Biotech Videos!

You Can Now Play DNA Tetris Thanks to This Irish Startup

British SynBio Startup Lands $3.6M for AI-Driven Protein Engineering

The Future is (Syn)Bio: How and when do we get there?

Synbio adds Softness: Robots of the Future will be Squishy

Bayer Launches Plant Microbiome Biotech with a Huge €84M Series A

French Startup Raises €11M in Series A to Reinvent DNA Synthesis

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

Things are Looking Up for UK Synbio Clusters, says Report

Meet Denmark’s Youngest Professor and Serial Synbio Entrepreneur

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

Video: Can Synbio Cure Malaria? – Fireside Chat with Oxitec’s CEO Hadyn Parry

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