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

Going viral: Synthetic biology and the Green New Deal

Is there a place for biologists in the age of automation?

From fruit flies to Boy Scouts: A brief history of science in space

Why automated liquid handling is a key technology for any synthetic biology company: A Q&A with Labcyte’s Chris Grimley

Why synthetic biology investors need to look beyond Silicon Valley and Boston

The five hottest synthetic biology job markets in the world

The top 10 skills synthetic biologists will need for 2019

In synthetic biology, it’s not only what you measure, but how you share it.

Synthetic biology and reproducibility meet on the Internet (of Things)

Measuring what matters: A Q&A with Agilent’s Darlene Solomon

New cell-free expression system runs on linear DNA

How sweet it is: The next generation of natural, zero-calorie sweeteners

The future of DNA synthesis

These 98 synthetic biology companies raised $3.8 billion in 2018

CRISPR is stuck, and this company can fix it

Zymergen raises $400M+ to deliver AI-enabled biology to global bio-based industry

Here are 2018’s top articles on SynBioBeta

Four synthetic biology startups to watch in 2019

Synthetic Biology Industry Strategy Reports

Job opportunities

Videos

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)

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