Climate change is rapidly altering the stability of our delicate ecosystem. We face the pressing challenge of providing food for almost 8 billion people even as arable land diminishes. Many scientists look to our home...
Author - Fiona Mischel
Moving to Mars? Biomaterials point the way
Synthetic biology innovations aim to change how we live on Earth. But could they also enable us to live on other planets? Scientists from iGEM teams to NASA are developing ways to make life off Earth a reality. Space...
Partnering with Procter and Gamble: Joining together to change the world
Procter and Gamble (P&G) is one of the largest influencers in the growing market aiming to serve the consumer looking for a more natural lifestyle. They are creating new products leveraging bio-based ingredients and...
Pivot Bio: Re-Awakening the Agricultural Microbiome
This story is brought to you by Pivot Bio, a company dedicated to providing farmers with solutions, so they can grow high-quality, environmentally-responsible and sustainably focused food crops that help feed families...
A Nobel Prize for Evolutionary Biology
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded yesterday to three recipients for discovering methods in controlling and speeding enzyme and antibody evolution. Frances H. Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering at the...
Bio-Platforms: The Future of Innovation and Collaboration
This article is brought to you by Mammoth Biosciences, the company behind the first CRISPR-based platform for disease detection. Mammoth Biosciences CEO Trevor Martin and Ursheet Parikh of Mayfield, a Series A investor...
Discovering DETECTR: The CRISPR-based platform for disease detection
Mammoth Biosciences is using their groundbreaking CRISPR technology—DETECTR—to revolutionize diagnostic medicine. SynBioBeta sat down with Janice Chen, one of Mammoth’s co-founders and lead author of the study that...
The challenges of big green: Scaling sustainability at Procter & Gamble
This story features Procter & Gamble, which uses biotechnology to create bio-based consumer products to address the needs of the consumer segment seeking to live a more natural lifestyle, without sacrificing product...
Procter & Gamble embraces the bio-based future
This story is brought to you by Procter & Gamble, which uses biotechnology to create bio-based consumer products that perform as well as conventional products at the same price. Learn more about P&G’s...
Re-introducing CRISPR: The Google Search of the genome
This story is brought to you by Mammoth Biosciences, whose researchers are building a CRISPR-based platform for an endless variety of tests for bio sensing in healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, forensics, and more...
