This interview is sponsored by Ginkgo Bioworks, whose team members look to nature for ways to replace technology with biology. Learn more about Ginkgo’s creative residency and its innovative approach to designing custom...
Author - Christine Stevenson
Living Medicines: Using Gut Microbes to Treat Disease
This article is sponsored by Ginkgo Bioworks. In the past ten years, the human microbiome has garnered an incredible amount of traction as a research subject and space for health intervention. During the rise of the...
Building Biotech on the Success of Semiconductors: an Interview with CustomArray CEO Brooke Anderson about GenScript’s Recent Acquisition
Anyone working in the cutting-edge field of synthetic biology is inevitably standing on the shoulders of giants. These are the shoulders of past biologists and, increasingly, the shoulders of computer scientists whose...
Precision CRISPR Engineering Startup Guide BioSci Named Runner-Up in IDT Synthetic Biology Grant Contest
This article is sponsored by Integrated DNA Technologies. Guide Biosci has been named runner-up in IDT’s new Synthetic Biology Grant Program and will be receiving 50,000 base pairs of DNA from IDT’s synthetic biology...
Humanitarian Diagnostics Startup Helispot Takes Home First-Ever IDT Synthetic Biology Grant Award
This article is sponsored by Integrated DNA Technologies. We are entering the genomic age, as the distance between DNA/genomic research and consequential applications is rapidly shortening. From gene therapy to gene...
TeselaGen: Building the Information Technology Backbone for Synthetic Biology
As synthetic biology continues to come into its own, software is instrumental for transforming the field into a full-blown engineering discipline. TeselaGen is one software startup that is using a platform to shape the...
Three New Mega-Raises Put SynBio on Track for Record-Breaking Year of Funding
Two months ago we brought you the news that the synthetic biology industry was on track for another fantastic year of funding, with over $500 million in venture capital, public funding, and grants raised in the first...
RNA Sequencing Better and Faster with Amaryllis Nucleics
Advances in genetics and biotechnology are being unveiled at a rate that almost outpaces the imagination. In particular, one of the areas that has been pursued most furiously and yielded the greatest improvements over...
Meet Dr. Terri Shieh-Newton, life sciences patent attorney
SynBioBeta had the privilege of talking with Terri Shieh-Newton, life sciences patent attorney and partner at Mintz Levin, who discussed with us her background and expertise, as well as advice for entrepreneurs in the...
Eating Methane and Plastics, and Staring into a Greener World
Women Biotech Entrepreneurs Are Unleashing the Power of Synthetic Biology to Save the Environment From climate change to ocean acidification to a global biodiversity crisis, it’s no secret that the environment is in...
