Twist Bioscience, the rising star of DNA synthesis, has announced the completion of its most recent financing round with the addition of $27 million to the raise. In combination with the $33 million in funding that Twist announced in March, [...]
Integrated DNA Technologies, the world’s largest manufacturer of nucleic acids, has announced the launch of a new grant program specifically aimed at supporting synthetic biology startups. The grant is dedicated to enabling research and development early stage companies by supplying [...]
Whether it’s the re emergence of pathogens trapped in melting permafrost or the spread of incurable crop plant diseases, biosecurity is a subject of mounting import on the global stage. At the Seventh International Meeting on Synthetic Biology, an entire [...]
It is becoming ever clearer that the world is entering a sixth mass extinction event driven by human activity and the levels of biodiversity we see today are gravely threatened. Global climate change is already impacting the stability of countless [...]
Synthetic biology holds the collective vision of a future where food, manufacturing, and medicine are all made possible by biologically-sourced raw materials. It’s no surprise, then, that researchers from all over the globe are working furiously to learn how microbes [...]
Synthetic biology has always been a visionary field, and one of the goals of the upcoming Seventh International Meeting on Synthetic Biology is to bring life to that vision, shaping synbio into a mission that the whole world can get [...]
