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Insights (Exclusive Content):

• Calling All Investors: Positioning Synthetic Biology in the Service of Climate Change. Policy interventions are essential to translate synthetic biology research into practical solutions for climate change mitigation.

Industry News:

• Solugen Secures $213.6 Million Loan Guarantee for Minnesota Bioforge Facility: The new 500,000-square-foot Bioforge Marshall facility will produce bio-based chemicals for sectors including wastewater treatment, industrial wastewater, construction, agriculture, and energy.

Gaurab Chakrabarti, CEO of Solugen.

• Green Bioactives Announces Promising Results for New Memory-Enhancing Supplement: Recently launched in the UK and Germany, GBL-Memory 1 marks the company’s first foray into the nutraceutical market.

• New Aging Metric: How Protein Clumps Could Predict Your Health Future. Innovative research suggests measuring protein clumps in cells could revolutionize how we predict and manage age-related diseases.

• The Dawn of Edge AI in Sustainable Agriculture. Incorporating edge AI in agriculture promises smarter, more efficient, and environmentally friendly farming.

• Enveda Biosciences Secures $55 Million in New Funding to Accelerate AI-Powered Drug Discovery: The fresh influx of capital will fuel further development of Enveda’s pioneering drug discovery platform, which leverages cutting-edge AI technologies.

• Revolutionary Wearable Patch Offers Continuous Health Monitoring. Pain-free wearable sensor reads and sends data on blood glucose, lactates, and other critical biomarkers, including indicators of acute cardiac disease.

• Meiogenix Names Ricardo Garcia de Alba as New CEO to Drive Global Agricultural Innovation: With a rich background in agribusiness, Garcia de Alba is poised to steer Meiogenix towards its goal of empowering farmers with advanced solutions that harness the natural genetic diversity of crops.

• Basecamp Research and Ferruz Laboratory Announce ZymCTRL: A Revolutionary AI Tool for Enzyme Design. Basecamp Research is making ZymCTRL available as an open source to researchers worldwide, envisioning a wide range of applications, from disease treatment and diagnostics to biofuel production and sustainable agriculture innovations.

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Additional Industry News:

• How is artificial intelligence impacting the food, ag and materials space? From accelerated materials discovery and turbo-charged R&D to menu optimization, personalized nutrition, and rapid concept development, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being deployed across the food, ag, and adjacent industries at breakneck speed.

• The Biological Technologies Office (BTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting an Industry Day for the potential proposer community in support of a planned Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Broad-Spectrum Antagonists For Editors (B-SAFE) Program. The Industry Day will be a hybrid event hosted in Arlington, VA, on June 28, 2024, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET.

• Synthetic Biology is in Fashion: Scientists are pulling on the protein threads that bind textiles and cosmetics together. (The Scientist)
  

• Gene editing may help rice better withstand climate change: A teen researcher tweaked three genes that limit rice’s ability to withstand dry or salty conditions (Science News)

• Perfect Day files $200m counterclaim accusing ex-partner of ‘gross negligence’ and ‘willful misconduct’ (AgFunder News)

• Biotech companies are trying to make milk without cows: The bird flu crisis on dairy farms could boost interest in milk protein manufactured in microorganisms and plants. (MIT Tech Review)

• Cultivated meat co SCiFi Foods closes up shop, appoints firm to run sales process (AgFunder News)

• Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Revolutionizes High-Throughput Genomic Sample Preparation with the New Biomek Echo One System (News Medical)

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Jeff

Jeffrey S. Buguliskis, PhD

Director of Content, SynBioBeta

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