Home » SynBioBeta Digest ArchiveSynBioBeta Digest ArchiveNews Digest #276 (May 22, 2019) – Read our special on chemicals and materials + 38.5m for DNA Script, Warp Drive Bio acquired, recoded genomes and more.News Digest #275 (May 15, 2019) – Benchmarking in synbio, new industry investors, inhibiting CRISPR (sponsored by Berkeley Lights)News Digest #274 (May 8, 2019) – New report on DNA data storage, Beyond Meat soars 163% in the best IPO in 2019 (sponsored by West Oxford Advisors) News Digest #273 (May 1, 2019) – Cell-free tech, Impossible Whoppers, Clara Foods, Sherlock Biosciences, Amyris and moreBetaSpace newsletter 2 (May 1, 2019) – BetaSpace news: NASA’s Chris McKay – a five-year plan to settle the solar system – webinar on May 7News Digest #272 (April 24, 2019) – SynBioBeta early bird ends next week! BetaSpace + LA Times, Green New Deal, Autolus IPO, $45M for David BakerNews Digest #271 (April 17, 2019) – How synthetic biology will disrupt pharma: Jake Glanville, Aaron Sato, and JC GutierrezNews Digest #270 (April 10, 2019) – Our $652m Q1 report, cell-free tech, and the BIG Economist cover story News Digest #269 – (April 3, 2019) – I guess AI can’t take a joke – engineered cell therapies for cancer, diabetes + space + £6.5m for Oxford GeneticsNews digest #268 – Mammuty’s $100M Series A and the future of foodNews digest #267 – The Sporting Green: Synbio meets sports + George Church + $35m for Sherlock BioNews Digest #266 – Who owns CRISPR, exploring the synthetic biology IP landscape with Mintz (sponsored by Mintz)News digest #265 – Leading women in synbio, GE salmon and cell-based foods leap regulatory bounds, SynBioBeta early bird ends FridayNews Digest #264 – Synbio startup playbook, plus Ursheet Parikh, Vern Norviel, Charlie Silver & Janice Chen (sponsored by Mayfield)News Digest #263 – SynBio in India + Ginkgo’s $90m new spin-out Motif takes on food techNews digest #262 – Why 2019 is the year of living medicines + Nestlé & Codexis, + $14m for PhylagenNews digest #261 – Synthetic biology in China, space, CRISPR babies, Pivot’s field day, Culture Biosciences $5.5MNews digest #260 (Digital biology newsletter #2) Cell-free webinar, Seattle’s synbio, protein design in the cloud, Labcyte’s acquisitionNews digest #259 – AMSilk’s OMEGA watch, $7m for Lygos and Sphere + Early bird ends tomorrow!News digest #258 – The bioautomation age, Green New Deal for SynBio? and bioscience in space (sponsored by Labcyte)News digest #257 – 5 hottest synbio job markets + the top 10 skills synthetic biologists need nowNews digest #256 – The Internet of synthetic biology things + measuring what matters + GreenLight Biosciences announces $50MNews digest #255 – What is the future of DNA synthesis? + The next generation of natural sweetenersNews digest #254 – These 98 synthetic biology companies raised $3.8 billion in 2018Digest #253 – $1.2 billion in 1 week: Moderna $604M IPO, Zymergen $400M, Synthorx $131M IPO, Synthace $25.6M, Elemental Machines $9M, GenEdit $8.5M + our early bird ends Friday!News digest #252 – iGEM teams find success with lab automation and cell-free expression, tips for building your biotech startup team (12/5/2018)News digest #251 – BetaSpace: The space settlement issueNews Digest #250 – P&G biomaterials challenge, synthetic neurobiology, and moreNews Digest #249 – Neuroscience and AI, Pivot and Ginkgo newsNews Digest #248 – Twist’s IPO, IndieBio’s demo day, Synlogic’s new data and Ginkgo’s de-extinct scent.News Digest #247 – Twist’s IPO, Ginkgo’s Bioworks4, iGEM’s winners, and Geltor’s Series ANews Digest #246 – Synthego raises $110M, the new culture of responsibility, and re-awakening the ag microbiomeNews Digest #245 – Berkeley Lights raises $95 million, a new OpenMTA for synthetic biology, and moreNews Digest #244 – A clash of tech titans, and the first Nobel for synthetic biology? Plus, meet Staph epidermidis (sponsored by Conagen)News Digest #243 – SynBioBeta Day 3, Twist $86.3M IPO, Pivot Bio’s $70M, Genomatica’s $90MNews Digest #242 – Download our program guide, Sutro’s IPO + 14 awesome workshops. (sponsored by Synthego)News Digest #241 – Targeting breast cancer with CRISPR, the new neuro, scaling up industrial fermentation, and more. (sponsored by Twist Bioscience)News Digest #240 – How these synbio startups are transforming agriculture, making DNA at scale, and more (sponsored by Codexis)News Digest #239 – SynBioBeta Awards + Live at 10am: Biopharma and Synthetic Biology (sponsored by Mayfield Fund)News Digest #238 – DNA data storage, SynBioBeta’s annual synthetic biology investment report, and more (sponsored by Data Collective)News Digest #237 – Airbus bets big on spider silk, Bolt Threads’ new bag, women in synbio, and more (sponsored by Ginkgo Bioworks)Launching the SynBioBeta Digital Biology Newsletter, Issue #1News Digest #236 – Pivot Bio’s nitrogen-producing microbes, Ginkgo’s cultured cannabinoids, and more (sponsored by Pivot Bio)News Digest #235 – The lab is getting smarter, cheaper, and more agile, Free Genes Project makes DNA freely available to the world (sponsored by Labcyte)News Digest #234 – What are the defining milestones from the last 20 years of synthetic biology? (sponsored by SynbiCITE)News Digest #233 – Ginkgo’s new Creative Resident, data storage in DNA, Recombinetics raises $34M, Amyris $46M, and more (sponsored by GenScript)News Digest #232 – Rewriting DNA with enzymatic synthesis + today’s report and webinar on chemicals and materials (sponsored by Molecular Assemblies)News Digest #231 – New chemicals and materials report, living medicines, P&G embraces the biobased future (sponsored by P&G)News Digest #230 – Opentrons SynBioBetaLive! Today, Pivot Bio’s launch, Partner with P&G. (sponsored by P&G)News Digest #229 – $85.4 m for Sutro, $23 m for Mammoth Biosciences, Peter Thiel + Wild Earth, CRISPR crops hurdles and space bioprinters (sponsored by the Open Philanthropy Project)News Digest #228 – IndieBio:NYC, CRISPR diagnostics, 5 must-dos for biotech start-ups + Opentrons on SynBioBetaLive! (sponsored by Corteva Agriscience)News Digest #227 – Meet Azitra and the skin microbiome. Newco A-Alpha Bio, Lygos’ $15.5M and Inscripta’s new patents (sponsored by Azitra)News Digest #226 – Food 2.0, Manus Bio’s $19.4M Series A, Synthace expands UK presence, and moreNews Digest #225 – SynBio Q2 funding tops $925m, today’s SynbiCITE webinar & John Oliver on gene editingNews Digest #224 – Join us live at Amyris today, Early bird ends Friday + 5 companies raise $278MNews Digest #223 – Faster DNA synthesis, Benchling raises $14.5M, CRISPR patents, and moreNews Digest #222 – Ginkgo Turns 10, DNA Script’s Milestone, CRISPR stocks plungeNews Digest #221 – Live demo with Amyris & Labcyte, off-the-shelf biocontainment, AbSci $12M roundNews Digest #220 – Opiates from yeast, gene editing for ag. SynBioBeta is hiring, early bird ends tomorrow.News Digest #219 – Join us in 90 minutes for SynBioBeta Live! Learn why you need be a data company else you’re not going to survive the future.News Digest #218 – $87m for base editing technology, $3m for PILI’s biopigments, DNA data storageNews Digest #217 – SynBioBetaLive! and Riffyn power up your machine learning, and Azitra’s skin microbiome fundingNews Digest #216 – Synthorx raises $63M, new startup Mammoth uses CRISPR to tackle diagnosticsNews Digest #215 – Saving our oceans, plus Stella McCartney partnership with Colorifix, BoltNews Digest #214 – What can synthetic biologists learn from Zuckerberg’s mistakes?News Digest #213 – Five companies raise $207M, aligning business with ocean philanthropyNews Digest #212 – Twist’ $50m for DNA data storage, SynBioBeta early bird ends FridayNews Digest #211 – SynBioBeta Q1 Breaks $650m, Trump Appoints Elizabeth Holmes to FDA.News Digest #210 – Opentrons’ $10M for lab of the future, SynBioBeta early bird ends next week (sponsored by Opentrons)News Digest #209 – Meet Joyn Bio from Ginkgo & Bayer, vegan pets, and Feng Zhang’s CRISPR newco (sponsored by Riffyn)News Digest #208 – IDT’s $1.9b Acquisition! Melinda Gates on Tech Meets BioNews Digest #207 – Living Medicines, Living Paints, and Living Foundries are all on the riseNews Digest #206 – Senti Bio Raises $53M, Inscripta $55.5M, Perfect Day $24.7M, Prokarium $10M, Boost Biomes $2MNews Digest #205 – Hexafly Raises $1.3M to Farm Insects, Biotech Needs Better Stories, and MoreNews Digest #204 – Terraforming Mars, Self-cleaning Teeth, How to Convince People to Love GMOs, and more.News Digest #203 – CRISPR at Davos, The Top Eighteen Technologies, and Free GenesNews Digest #202 – $12.3M for Evonetix and $10M for Engine Bio, SynBioBeta Early Bird ends today!News Digest #201 – #MemoriesInDNA, SynBioBeta Early Bird Ends Wed, Synthetic Viruses and more.News Digest #200 – Biotech Revenue Reaches $370B, IndieBio’s New Class, Genomatica’s Bio-Nylon.News Digest #199 – Y Combinator Bio + SynBioBeta 2018 + Raw Water!News Digest #198 – Bolt Threads Raises $123M + Can CRISPR Save the World’s Chocolate?News Digest #197 – These Fifty Synthetic Biology Companies Raised $1.7B in 2017
London’s SynbiTECH takes on the challenge of building a multibillion dollar synthetic biology industry
BetaSpace Webinar Series: “A five-year plan to settle the solar system: Using the Mojave as an analog site.”
International Space Station tests a new approach to fight the growing threat of antibiotic resistance
SynBioBeta Deep Dive – Amyris and Labcyte: Increasing strain construction efficiency and reducing reaction volumes
