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Visualizing the Future: Spatialomics Transforms Study of Gene Expression

Spatialomics is considered by many to be the next frontier in understanding gene expression. Earlier this year, Nature named spatially resolved transcriptomics—also known as spatialomics—the 2020 Method of the Year...

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Living Power: This Bio-Battery Is Harnessing the Power of DNA

Q1 Shatters Previous Synthetic Biology Investment Record – Signals Projected 2021 Investment of up to $36 Billion

2021 is shaping up to be a record year for synthetic biology investment. The first quarter of 2021 nearly quadrupled the previous Q1 record set in 2020 and is more than ten-fold higher than Q1 investments from only four...

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Breaking News: New Kingdom of Life Discovered

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Could Algae Help Solve India’s Pollution Crisis? Why Some Scientists Aren’t Giving Up

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Can Monoclonal Antibodies Cure Alzheimer’s?

If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything in the last year, it’s the enormous role that antibodies play in keeping us not only alive but well. Antibodies—proteins produced by the body’s immune systems—destroy...

Synthetic Biology, A Tool For Marine Conservation?

Meet the Heroes You Never Knew You Had

Three Underappreciated Female Pioneers of Synthetic Biology The field of synthetic biology has come a long way from the CRISPR-less days of the early aughts. In 2000, bioengineers made the leap from studying natural...

CRISPR Clinical Trials: A 2021 Update

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How Will the Proteins of the Future Be Designed?

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ZX Ventures, AB InBev’s Global Innovation Group, Partners With Clara Foods to Unlock Precision Fermentation’s Potential to Meet Global Food Challenges

New partnership to focus on unlocking scaled production for more sustainable, animal-free protein ingredients NEW YORK – [DATE] – Today, ZX Ventures, the global investment and innovation group of AB InBev, announced a...

Jellatech Announces $2M Pre-seed Round

North Carolina-based biotech startup Jellatech announces its $2M pre-seed fundraise. Investors in this round include Iron Grey, YellowDog, 7 Hound Ventures, Capital V, Sentient Investments, Bluestein Ventures...

Manus Bio Launches a Next-Generation Natural Zero-Calorie Sweetener in the US Under its Iconic Brand NutraSweet Natural™

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Manus Bio, Inc. (Manus Bio), a leading US manufacturer of sustainable natural ingredients, announced today the launch of NutraSweet Natural™, a plant-based...

TetraScience Secures $80 Million Series B and Accelerates Roll Out of the World’s Only Open R&D Data Cloud for Scientific Discovery

Insight Partners and Alkeon Capital credit the company with category and revenue leadership in the $300B experimental data cloud market BOSTON, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — TetraScience, the world’s only...

Molecular Assemblies Closes Oversubscribed $24 Million Series A Financing to Advance Enzymatic DNA Synthesis toward Initial Commercial Access

SAN DIEGO, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Molecular Assemblies, Inc., today announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $24 million Series A financing with significant investment from Agilent Technologies...

Atlast Raises $40M to Expand Production of Whole Cut Plant-Based Meat

Leaders of Applegate, Stonyfield, and Whole Foods join Viking Global Investors, 40 North, AiiM Partners, Stray Dog Capital and others in Series A round GREEN ISLAND, N.Y., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Atlast Food...

New Coalition Dedicated To Fostering American Synthetic Biology Manufacturing Launched Today

The SynBio Coalition, Backed by Three Industry Leaders, Says Innovation is Key for American Global Leadership, Job Creation, Greater Security, and the New Green Economy; Pledges to Work with Government, Industry...

Pure Biologics Selects Twist Bioscience to Expand Phage Display Technology Capabilities

April 14, 2021 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time – SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of...

Benchling Raises $200M Series E To Accelerate Biotech R&D

Led by Sequoia, new funding will fuel life sciences cloud leader’s global growth and product expansion SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Benchling, the leading life sciences R&D cloud, has...

Senti Bio Enters Collaboration with Spark Therapeutics to Develop Next-Generation Precision Gene Therapies

– Collaboration combines Senti Bio’s leading-edge gene circuit technology platform and high-throughput synthetic promoter design capabilities with Spark Therapeutics’ investigational gene therapies targeting the...

Scribe Therapeutics Raises $100M Series B Financing to Further Develop “CRISPR by Design” Platform and Pipeline of Breakthrough Genetic Medicines

Molecular engineering company’s fully integrated evergreen platform accelerates the development of best-in-class in vivo therapies that treat the underlying cause of disease March 31, 2021 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time...

Riffyn Launches Riffyn Nexus v4.2 to Strengthen Bioprocess Data Integrity With Automated Data Validation

OAKLAND, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Riffyn’s pioneering cloud-based process data system for Intelligent Process Development has been upgraded with more powerful capabilities. The new features in Riffyn...

Editors' picks

Visualizing the Future: Spatialomics Transforms Study of Gene Expression

Living Power: This Bio-Battery Is Harnessing the Power of DNA

Q1 Shatters Previous Synthetic Biology Investment Record – Signals Projected 2021 Investment of up to $36 Billion

Breaking News: New Kingdom of Life Discovered

Could Algae Help Solve India’s Pollution Crisis? Why Some Scientists Aren’t Giving Up

Can Monoclonal Antibodies Cure Alzheimer’s?

Synthetic Biology, A Tool For Marine Conservation?

Meet the Heroes You Never Knew You Had

CRISPR Clinical Trials: A 2021 Update

How Will the Proteins of the Future Be Designed?

Press releases

ZX Ventures, AB InBev’s Global Innovation Group, Partners With Clara Foods to Unlock Precision Fermentation’s Potential to Meet Global Food Challenges

Jellatech Announces $2M Pre-seed Round

Manus Bio Launches a Next-Generation Natural Zero-Calorie Sweetener in the US Under its Iconic Brand NutraSweet Natural™

TetraScience Secures $80 Million Series B and Accelerates Roll Out of the World’s Only Open R&D Data Cloud for Scientific Discovery

Molecular Assemblies Closes Oversubscribed $24 Million Series A Financing to Advance Enzymatic DNA Synthesis toward Initial Commercial Access

Atlast Raises $40M to Expand Production of Whole Cut Plant-Based Meat

New Coalition Dedicated To Fostering American Synthetic Biology Manufacturing Launched Today

Pure Biologics Selects Twist Bioscience to Expand Phage Display Technology Capabilities

Benchling Raises $200M Series E To Accelerate Biotech R&D

Senti Bio Enters Collaboration with Spark Therapeutics to Develop Next-Generation Precision Gene Therapies

Scribe Therapeutics Raises $100M Series B Financing to Further Develop “CRISPR by Design” Platform and Pipeline of Breakthrough Genetic Medicines

Riffyn Launches Riffyn Nexus v4.2 to Strengthen Bioprocess Data Integrity With Automated Data Validation

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