Japan is a global powerhouse for life sciences research. The level of academic research in the country is impressive. Two Nobel Prize winners in the past five years have come from Japan — Yoshinori Ohsumi in 2016...
Synthetic biology in Japan
Scientific and social trends in the world’s third largest economy
Synthetic biology in Japan
Scientific and social trends in the world’s third largest economy
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Synthetic Biology Summit
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San Francisco, California
Tuesday-Thursday, Oct. 1-3, 2019
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Synthetic biology, culture, and the stirrings of innovation from Old Japan
Japan is a global powerhouse for life sciences research.
Along came Spiber: How synthetic proteins are weaving a new era in materials
Spiber aims to build the world’s largest structural protein fermentation facility
Why you should look to Tokyo for the cell-free amplification of large, genome-scale DNA
Seiji Hirasaki, CEO and co-founder of Tokyo-based company OriCiro Genomics, is ready to take cell-free DNA amplification up a notch.
Riffyn hits a home run in 2019
For its fifth birthday, Riffyn received a $15 million Series B and a multi-year partnership with enzyme giant Novozymes.
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Why you should look to Tokyo for the cell-free amplification of large, genome-scale DNA
DNA is the backbone of synthetic biology. Whether you’re making high-value proteins de novo through fermentation or working on solutions for reading and writing data in DNA — or anything in between — you...
Scaling the green tech revolution: LanzaTech goes industrial size
The climate change debate is, if you excuse the pun, heating up. Between the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on global warming, Representative Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal...
