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Over $18 billion was invested in the synthetic biology industry in 2021. You can meet the movers and shakers who are on a mission to make biology easier to engineer at our annual event next May. If you’re putting together strategic plans and event budgets for next year, then make sure to include attending, sponsoring or exhibiting at SynBioBeta 2023. If you’re now a remote team then make the Oakland Marriott your team’s base for the week and contact Anissa Cooke today for your multi-company discount pass.

Food Tech News

• Bursting with flavor: International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) just announced the opening of its new Singapore Innovation Center. The center features more than ten creation, design and analytical laboratories, a collaboration studio, and culinary and demo kitchens. Here customers can witness each stage of the process - from ideation through commercialization - as a full sensory experience.

• Want to stay on top of your fitness goals even when you party? How about trying a ‘protein-boosted hard juice’ from The EVERY Co and Pulp Culture? Their product adds an intriguing new twist to the functional beverage space: it’s a fermented juice laced with adaptogens, probiotics, and a highly-soluble, ‘near invisible’ animal-free egg protein made using microbes, not chickens. (Food Navigator)

• And something that may pair well with animal-free protein juice - New Culture’s first-of-its-kind, animal-free mozzarella in sealed, labeled packaging.

• As for the main course, Impossible Foods has a big new offering in the works: filet mignon. The first product review makes us want to try it - founder Pat Brown said at MIT Technology Review’s ClimateTech event that his company’s steak prototype is "pretty damn good." (MIT Tech Review)
• Arzeda has entered into a joint development agreement with AAK to accelerate the innovation of plant-based oils for the food industry through the application of novel enzymes. (Press release)

Resources

• Last week, Meta launched a new VR headset called Meta Quest Pro, and one of its launch partners was the biology company Nanome that has a platform to allow you to design proteins and other molecules inside a VR collaborative environment. Steve McCloskey spoke at SynBioBeta last year all about this and you'll be able to meet the Nanome team and try it for yourself at SynBioBeta next May.

• The Network Effects Masterclass: Few understand the hidden complexities of network effects - learn all there is to know about building iconic companies from day one. (NFX)

SynBioBeta 2023 speakers:

• Frank Jaksch, CEO of Ayana Bio, seeks to modernize the health and wellness sector and provide affordable and reliable ingredients.

• Sri Kosaraju, CEO of Inscripta, is leading the development of a benchtop platform for scalable digital genome engineering.

• Veronica Wu founded First Bight Ventures as the first venture firm dedicated to early-stage synthetic biology companies that need to scale their operations/technology.

• Alok Tayi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vibe Biotechnology, a community of patients, scientists, and partners committed to identifying, funding, and developing promising treatments for rare diseases.

Are you joining them at SynBioBeta 2023? You can REGISTER HERE TODAY.

DNA news

• DNA Script extends distributorships to Middle East to expand access to same-day enzymatic DNA synthesis (Press release)
• Codex DNA announces plan to change corporate name to Telesis Bio.(Press release)
• IARPA, Ginkgo Bioworks and Draper announce new technologies to detect engineered DNA. Ginkgo has developed a suite of new computational tools and Draper has developed a new experimental platform to help detect and identify when samples include genetically engineered biological systems. (Press release)
• Twist Bioscience launches Human Sample ID Kit to track whole blood samples through lab testing workflow (Press release)

Energy and environment news

• Texas startup is creating clean hydrogen from microbes and old oil wells. Cemvita Factory is using microbes to produce clean hydrogen from depleted oil wells for less than $1 a kilogram. (Newsweek)
• Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks close deal creating Agricultural Biologicals Powerhouse: Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks are entering into a new collaboration focused on crop protection, nitrogen fixation, and carbon sequestration to identify next generation biologicals. (Ginkgo)
• GM just took a stake in a startup that makes imitation leather out of mushrooms: The material, made by MycoWorks using the root-like structures of mushrooms, could provide an alternative to traditional leather and artificial leather made from plastics. (CNN)

Reishi™ Boletus (By the way, if you love hats like this, come meet Paul Stamets at SynBioBeta next year.)

Health news

• Sherlock Biosciences licenses Wyss Institute’s ambient nucleic acid amplification technology from Harvard to develop highly accurate, low-cost diagnostics for point-of-need (Wyss Institute)
• Synlogic, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing medicines for metabolic and immunological diseases with synthetic biology, has announced positive top-line data from the Phase 2 Synpheny-1 study in phenylketonuria (PKU). (Press release)

Biomanufacturing news

• The California Biomanufacturing Center (CBC) launched the BioProcess to Product (BioP2P) Network, a program to accelerate the transformation of manufacturing in the United States for the growing bioeconomy. (CBC)
• Boston Bioworks helps precision fermentation startups scale up: Precision fermentation startups have few options when looking for ways to scale up their technology. The newly launched scaling service provider Boston Bioworks aims to address this bottleneck. (Labiotech)
• Sestina Bio uses Inscripta’s ONYX® Platform to develop microbial strain ready for scale-up in less than 12 months. (Press release)
• LabVantage Solutions and Biomax Informatics merge to create innovative capabilities for the life science and bio manufacturing industries (Press release)
• Congratulations to Ginkgo Bioworks for completing its previously announced acquisition of Zymergen. The acquisition is expected to enhance Ginkgo's platform by integrating strong automation and software capabilities as well as a wealth of experience across diverse biological engineering approaches. (Press release)

Who's hiring?

• Lead Data & Automation Engineer, Solugen, Houston, TX
• Lead Engineer, Late Stage R&D (Bioprocess), Helaina, New York, NY
• Scientist, Biology, Amyris, Emeryville, CA
• Product Manager, Molecular Biology, Genscript, Remote
• Staff Data Scientist, DNA Products, Twist Bioscience, US
• Associate Technical Director, Microbial Engineering, Ginkgo Bioworks, Boston, MA
• Research Associate - Mammalian Synthetic Biology, 64x Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Head of Functional Genomics, 64x Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Platform Program Manager, 64x Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Lab Support Associate, 64x Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Director of Operations, 64x Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Software Engineer, 64x Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Automation Engineer, 64x Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Director of Business Development, 64x Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Automation Research Associate, LanzaTech, Skokie, IL
• Senior Knowledge Analyst, Deep Tech, BCG, Remote, US or Europe based
• Senior Software Engineer/ Staff Software Engineer, Inscripta, Pleasanton, CA or Boulder, CO
• Senior Scientist/ Engineer, Inscripta, Pleasanton, CA

Regards,
John

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John Cumbers
Founder, SynBioBeta

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