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News and Trends 27 Jul 2016

SynBio Nootkatone now in trials to stop the Spread of Zika

The grapefruit aroma nootkatone is now in field trials to assess its effectiveness against mosquitoes that spread the Zika virus. Good news for Evolva, which figured out a SynBio process to produce the compound. Recently, the Zika went from being considered a mild virus to a public health emergency. As the virus was linked with infant microcephaly, there […]

July 27, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 26 Jul 2016

What is Lithuania’s role in European Biotech?

Since the days of the Soviet Union, Lithuania has always been considered as a leader in life sciences discoveries in Eastern Europe due to its infrastructure. But what about for Biotech? Nowadays, as a member of the NATO, the European Union, and Eurozone, Lithuania’s life science sector is growing around 20-25% annually; with special focus on […]

July 26, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

More News! 22 Jul 2016

This startup is producing Synthetic Milk that tastes like your usual Breakfast Dairy

Muufri wants to launch cow-less milk onto the market by producing its essential components using bioengineered yeast. Since 75% of the world population is lactose intolerant, is it so surprising they have already secured over $2 million from investors? Co-founders Ryan Pandya (CEO) and Perumal Gandhi started working on making milk from scratch in April […]

July 22, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 20 Jul 2016

SynBio Startup moves to Toulouse to scale up its Bacterial Ink Production

Pili is leaving its bio-hacking nest in Paris for the industrial facilities of TWB, Toulouse’s preindustrial demonstrator for industrial Biotech. It will be able to develop pilot-scale production of its first dye – blue… Pili is one of the examples of Biotech innovation coming out of biohacking spaces. The start-up started at La Paillasse (Paris) and went on […]

July 20, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 9 Jul 2016

Bio-printing Clothes and Darwin’s book ‘On the Origin of Species’ with Bacteria

Simon Park is a professor at the University of Surrey in the UK who created the first book to be ‘printed’ with living bacteria, whereas Suzanne Lee is a New York based designer who uses the same species of bacteria in her clothing designs. This is probably one of the most unusual tributes to Charles Darwin, the English naturalist and geologist […]

July 9, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 7 Jul 2016

Engineered Microorganisms now able to directly produce Bioplastics for 3D-Printing

Carbios made a breakthrough in the production of PLA, a common bioplastic. The lactic acid used as molecular ‘building blocks’ were already bio-sourced, but now the plastic can be really produced from scratch with microorganisms. Bioplastics are one of the ways GreenTech is trying to save the world. Some success stories are Bio-On’s potato plastics […]

July 7, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 4 Jul 2016

What kind of Startups were born at the UK’s First Biohackathon?

Organised by the University of Cambridge Technology and Enterprise Club (a catchy ‘CUTEC’ for short), the Biohackathon was the first of its kind organised in the UK… With SynBio veterans such as Bento Bio (inventors of the ‘Lunch box sized Laboratory’ for hackers, schools and DIY enthusiasts), Synthace (which invented Antha – ‘the programming language of […]

July 4, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 20 Jun 2016

GMO Tobacco could Produce cheaper Medicine for Malaria

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam have altered tobacco to produce large yields of artemisinin – the most effective treatment for malaria but still without a cheap and reliable source. Artemisinin is used in the most effective treatments against malaria, the discovery of which was worth a Nobel Prize. […]

June 20, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 16 Jun 2016

Europe’s Leading SynBio Incubator has 13 new Biotechs ready to Hatch

IndieBio is an accelerator program for new ideas in Synthetic Biology. The participants of the most recent edition (Summer 2016) have been hard at work in Ireland since May 3rd – and now you can take a peek at what’s going on. The objective of IndieBio‘s program is to unlock the creative potential of students, researchers or […]

June 16, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 13 Jun 2016

“A new generation of Bio-entrepreneurs is rising right now” – SynBio in Europe

Our SynBio panel had a really popular turn-out at Labiotech Refresh. Chaired by Cathal Garvey, the Program Director at IndieBio EU, we had some very diverse leaders in the field present, from Biohackers to the CEO of Biofuel giant, Deinove. Asides Cathal, on the panel we had Axel Polack, a General Partner at the Joint Polish […]

June 13, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 4 Jun 2016

BioArt : Nurit Bar-Shai’s ‘Chemical Tweets’ and the Social Life of Bacteria

Nurit Bar-Shai is an artist and co-founder of bio-hacking lab Genspace. She is showing how bacteria communicate and socialize – and shaping it with sound. An Israeli-American multimedia artist, Nurit Bar-Shai composes video, live telematic installations and conducts experiments – working at the interface between art, science, and technology. She is also a co-founder and the Art and […]

June 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 30 May 2016

Besides Techno, Berlin is also the place to be for Life Science Industries

On the 25th of May, the largest network event for life sciences and healthcare industries in the German capital region once again came to life for the 14th time, for Bionnale 2016 . As we too belong to this city, we are pleased to summarise the highlights of what happened there… This free event, which belongs to the Life Science’s […]

May 30, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

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