SynBioBeta Digest Archive

Digest #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 issue

News Digest #250 – P&G biomaterials challenge, synthetic neurobiology, and more

News Digest #249 – Neuroscience and AI, Pivot and Ginkgo news

News 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 A

News Digest #246 – Synthego raises $110M, the new culture of responsibility, and re-awakening the ag microbiome

News Digest #245 – Berkeley Lights raises $95 million, a new OpenMTA for synthetic biology, and more

News 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 $90M

News 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 #1

News 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 more

News Digest #225 – SynBio Q2 funding tops $925m, today’s SynbiCITE webinar & John Oliver on gene editing

News Digest #224 – Join us live at Amyris today, Early bird ends Friday + 5 companies raise $278M

News Digest #223 – Faster DNA synthesis, Benchling raises $14.5M, CRISPR patents, and more

News Digest #222 – Ginkgo Turns 10, DNA Script’s Milestone, CRISPR stocks plunge

News Digest #221 – Live demo with Amyris & Labcyte, off-the-shelf biocontainment, AbSci $12M round

News 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 storage

News Digest #217 – SynBioBetaLive! and Riffyn power up your machine learning, and Azitra’s skin microbiome funding

News Digest #216 – Synthorx raises $63M, new startup Mammoth uses CRISPR to tackle diagnostics

News Digest #215 – Saving our oceans, plus Stella McCartney partnership with Colorifix, Bolt

News Digest #214 – What can synthetic biologists learn from Zuckerberg’s mistakes?

News Digest #213 – Five companies raise $207M, aligning business with ocean philanthropy

News Digest #212 – Twist’ $50m for DNA data storage, SynBioBeta early bird ends Friday

News 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 Bio

News Digest #207 – Living Medicines, Living Paints, and Living Foundries are all on the rise

News Digest #206 – Senti Bio Raises $53M, Inscripta $55.5M, Perfect Day $24.7M, Prokarium $10M, Boost Biomes $2M

News Digest #205 – Hexafly Raises $1.3M to Farm Insects, Biotech Needs Better Stories, and More

News 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 Genes

News 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

SynBioBeta Digest Archive

Editor’s picks

The 7 RebelBio companies making science fiction for real

With the recent patent news, who owns CRISPR now?

GE salmon’s 20-year upstream struggle to market

USDA, FDA announcement brings cell-based meat one step closer to U.S. supermarkets

Here are the stories — in their own words — of five women of synthetic biology

The long view with synthetic biology IP veteran Terri Shieh-Newton

Can synthetic biology help Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers develop therapeutic antibodies in only 90 days?

Eight no-nonsense do’s and don’ts for your next pitch

The Four Key Elements to Scaling Health IT Startups

The ethics of democratizing diagnostics with next-gen CRISPR

Finding a Needle in the Cancer Haystack

WSGR’s Norviel has this IP advice for synthetic biology startups

Synthego to award $1M in CRISPR tools to genome innovators

Ginkgo bets on future food tech with spin-out Motif Ingredients

How one company is using greenhouse gas to mitigate world hunger

Powering a clean planet with synthetic biology

Jugaad epitomized: a deep dive into India’s synthetic biology scene

Living medicines: Ginkgo’s machine to disrupt the pharma industry

Synthetic Biology Industry Strategy Reports

Job opportunities

Videos

SynBioBeta Deep Dive webinar with Tierra Biosciences and Labcyte

Watch Panel “Bio is not another app: Investing in what’s important” at SynBioBeta 2018

SynbiCITE webinar: Global trends and business opportunities in synbio

SynBioBeta Deep Dive – Amyris and Labcyte: Increasing strain construction efficiency and reducing reaction volumes

SynBioBetaLive! – Lab data to machine learning in 30 seconds with Riffyn

SynBioBetaLive! Let a thousand foundries bloom with Opentrons

SynBioBetaLive! with P&G

Synthetic Biology Annual Investment Report (2018)

What’s your Bio Strategy? Biopharma and Healthcare Industry (2018)