News Digest #229 – $85.4 m for Sutro, $23 m for Mammoth Biosciences, Peter Thiel + Wild Earth, CRISPR crops hurdles and space bioprinters
Checkerspot raises $5M to bring new high performance sustainable materials from microalgae
For millennia, civilization has depended on a handful of plant oils for food, medicine, and agriculture, including canola, soy, peanut, coconut, palm, corn, sunflower, and olive oil. Today, these same natural triglyceride vegetable oils serve as the building blocks for [...]
Learning from Nature to Develop new Organisms that Replace Technology with Biology
This week we interviewed Jason Kelly, CEO and Co-Founder of Ginkgo Bioworks, who will be giving a keynote talk at SynBioBeta SF 2017 on October 3rd. Ginkgo recently announced the creation of a new company with Bayer, with a $100M [...]
Synthetic Biology and Immunotherapy to Bring More Effective Cell Therapies for Cancer
For years, the foundations of cancer treatment were chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy. But over the past several years, progress with therapies that collect and use a patient’s own immune cells to attack tumors (in other words, immunotherapy) have greatly [...]
