Hi , Today we bring you two of biology’s greatest minds on stage at SynBioBeta, biology’s latest unicorn, a *glowing* new Spotlight and much more!
Nobel Laureates Share the Stage Monday Oct 4th at SynBioBeta!
We are honored to announce that Nobel
Laureates Jennifer Doudna and Frances Arnold will speak together at SynBioBeta! These leaders have broken barriers and led the way for the modern age of
biology. We can’t wait to hear their wisdom, insights, and vision for a future built with biology!
Join us today for the Built with Biology show on Twitter Spaces at 8 am PT! Spaces is an audio-only platform—all you need is a
Twitter handle and the Twitter app on your phone.
Today’s show welcomes Kris Tyner, Senior Bioprocessing Engineer and Masaki Yamada, Product Manager at Culture Biosciences.
Our world is full of light - electric light. Meet Glowee, a company working to bring nature back into our daily lives with bioluminescent microbes! Imagine all our modern conveniences illuminated by soft, calming, environmentally-friendly light. Would that be lovely? Hosts Fiona and Nikita are already making big plans, listen here!
John Cumbers for Forbes
Yesterday Your Screen Was Built With Fossil Fuels -Today It’s Built With Biology Why pump oil out of the ground to make chemicals when microbes can make higher quality materials that are better for our planet? Partnering with nature allows companies to create better products with new properties such as microbes that transform waste into useful items. Now the biology unicorn, Zymergen, is using rapid R&D to put sustainable materials right into our hands.
Computer-Designed Enzymes Brings Sustainability Home To Consumers How can we get cleaner clothes in a way that’s also better for the planet? Arzeda, a protein design company, and Unilever, a multinational consumer goods company, announced a strategic partnership to discover and design new enzymes that can be used in cleaning and laundry products. How else could this partnership help our environment through our daily chores?
Know The Proteome, Know Yourself - Unlocking The Secrets Of Proteins Could Save Lives The proteome, the sum of all the proteins in a living organism. Exceptionally difficult to study but key to understanding how life works and how diseases evolve. Now proteomics company Seer is using engineered nanoparticles to discover the secrets of our proteomes and potentially elusive cures for complex diseases.
New Synthetic Biology Unicorn Congratulations to our friends at Pivot Bio, a startup using microbes to replace synthetic fertilizer, for raising $430 million. The company's valuation is now near $2 billion. Pivot Bio says its products take microbes that naturally occur in crop soils and use them to convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia and feed it to plants. Read Amy Feldman’s coverage on Forbes.
Nature’s Fynd raised $350 million to commercialize fermented fungal
protein. The funding will be used to commercialize the Chicago-based startup’s flagship product, Fy, which it describes as a “nutritional fungi protein.”
OriCiro
Genomics, a pioneer in cell-free synthesis and amplification of genome-scale large DNA for advanced therapy and synthetic biology, announced that it has raised ¥800 million in Series B
financing.
