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How Molecular Assemblies is using enzymatic DNA to enable DNA data storage

You’re on your way to meet with a major software expert. Maybe you want to collaborate with them, or you need a platform for your lab. Either way: let’s say you get to their office, and the expert welcomes you from...

The impending data storage crisis, and how DNA will fix it

The Class of 2019: Five synthetic biology companies to watch this year

Synthetic biology funding is on track for another strong year in 2019, with 25 companies already raising $652 million in the first quarter. This comes on the heels of the industry’s record-setting 2018, when 98...

BetaSpace Webinar Series: “A five-year plan to settle the solar system: Using the Mojave as an analog site.”

Biology Unlocked: Emerging Applications of Cell-Free Systems

International Space Station tests a new approach to fight the growing threat of antibiotic resistance

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global crisis. The World Health Organization found that “antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world” and the Center for Disease Control called...

You can have the Green New Deal and your hamburger, too

SynBioBeta’s First Green New Deal Town Hall: Sweeping Visions, Growing Consensus

In the same week that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) gathered co-sponsors for a resolution that would formally introduce the Green New Deal into the U.S. House of Representatives, SynBioBeta hosted its...

Checkerspot raises $13M Series A to produce biotech-enabled performance materials

The typical scheme employed when designing site saturation variant libraries

The best kept secret in drug discovery has a Twist

How Distributed Bio CSO Jake Glanville is engineering the cell for the 21st century

For most of human history, we have furthered our knowledge about life by zooming in — starting at the macro level and inching towards the micro. Although there are innumerable advancements that have facilitated...