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Video: Leveraging the power of digital genome engineering – Inscripta Workshop at SynBioBeta 2019

Here is the video of the Inscripta Workshop at SynBioBeta 2019 “Leveraging the power of digital genome engineering” with Nandini Krishnamurthy, Senior Director of Microbial Applications at Inscripta. The...

Video: Genome-scale mapping of genotype – Inscripta Workshop at SynBioBeta 2019

Fast-forward 10 years from now. What does the CRISPR genome editing field look like to you?

Add your voice to SynBioBeta! Our new survey is now open: Fast-forward 10 years from now. What does the CRISPR genome editing field look like to you? A selection of the best responses will be published in our upcoming...

Better Than Nature: Why Fermenting Vanilla Is Good For Consumers, The Environment, And The Economy

How Neural Nets Will Personalize Medicine: Meet The Startup That’s Changing How We Find New Drugs

British Biotech Company Sees Hope In Reducing Mosquito-Borne Diseases And Deaths With GMOs

Mosquitoes are not just obnoxious summer pests — they are a serious health threat to most of the world. In fact, the WHO calls mosquitoes “one of the deadliest animals in the world.” Why? Mosquitoes carry and spread...

How Inscripta’s Onyx platform is making creativity the biologist’s only limiting factor

Top synthetic biology news from academic labs in 2019

This week, we are bringing you some of the hottest research news in synthetic biology in 2019: what were the most exciting academic articles published this year by synthetic biology researchers, and why? On Monday...

How Automation and Machine Learning Help Explore the Dark Corners of the Genome

The Medicine Cabinet Of The Future: If You Can Imagine A Drug, This Company Can Make It

DNA is the future for data storage. That future is coming very soon.

We have read how DNA data storage is about to go viral. At SynBioBeta 2019, this was made even more clear after a panel discussion of leaders in the field forecasted that costs for storing information in DNA could drop...

How to support women in synthetic biology

Are we doing enough about biosecurity? Looking to tech and one another for how to protect human health and prosperity in the bioeconomy

Since its inception, synthetic biology has inspired new promises but caused some to fear the threat of potential new dangers. Discussions about both the potential benefits and the potential harms of synthetic biology...