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It is always great to welcome new members into the synthetic biology community. This week, attendees signed up to join SynBioBeta 2023 from Corteva Agriscience, Seventure Partners, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, as well as the CEOs from Bloom Science, AKT Therapeutics and Colabra. I also want to do a shout out to our new sponsor Antheia - who is brewing the next generation of plant-inspired medicines. I hope you’ll join them and more at SynBioBeta 2023.

Bioeconomy News

• Big news for Twist Bioscience on the 4th anniversary of going public: DNA maker promotes Paddy Finn, who has helped grow the company’s revenue from $2M to what’s projected to be more than $200M by the end of the year. Paddy’s new role will be President and Chief Operating Officer as Twist makes moves into the $186 billion antibody therapeutics market.

Emily Leproust, Patrick Finn, Aaron Sato, and Tracey Mullen of Twist Bioscience.

• Startup BioRaptor raises $3M to drive AI-generated insights for scientists: its technology promises to help scientists see deep patterns in data and generate actionable insights.

Sustainability News

• Could your next pair of yoga pants be made from almond husks? California's congressman Josh Harder is pushing for a sustainable ag waste utilization program to help establish a circular bioeconomy ecosystem in the Central Valley.

Congressman Josh Harder visiting a Central Valley farm.

• Prince William unveils LanzaTech as a finalist for the second annual Earthshot Prize Award: Congratulations to LanzaTech for being selected as one of the 15 finalists in the second inaugural Fix Our Climate Earthshot for their carbon transformation solution that can be deployed in any geography using available waste streams.

• Want a sneak peek at the future of food production? Mark Warner, CEO of Liberation Labs recently shared their launch facility design; commercial-scale, fit-for-purpose, and ready to produce the next generation of proteins by 2024!

• C16 Biosciences is announcing the launch of Palmless, a palm oil alternative created with yeast. C16, with 35 employees and $24 million in total venture capital, is laser-focused on scaling up its palm oil alternative and simultaneously bringing the price down.

Shara Ticku, co-founder and CEO of C16 Biosciences, holding their palm oil alternative, Palmless

SynBioBeta 2023 speakers:

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• Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute, a leading think tank and public interest organization focused on transformative future technologies.

• Niklas Rindtorff is the founder of LabDAO, an online community supporting distributed teams through open-source scientific tools.

• Alfredo Andere is the Co-Founder and CEO of LatchBio, a platform for biology companies to store, transform, and analyze large data.

• Suveen Sahib is the CEO of K18hair, a breakthrough haircare company making products engineered with biotech.

Research news

• A virus-resistant organism -- and what it could mean for the future: In a talk about breakthrough science, synthetic biologist Jason W. Chin describes his team's work rewriting the genetic blueprint of cells to create a virus-resistant organism.
• A new control system for synthetic genes: Using an approach based on the CRISPR gene-editing system, MIT researchers have developed a new way to precisely control the amount of a particular protein produced in mammalian cells.
• This Harvard scientist wants to use genetics to reverse skin aging: Denitsa Milanova says that her team is developing methods to drive rejuvenation of skin cells with gene therapy and is working on a product that could reverse wrinkles "like a genetic Botox".
• The future of synthetic biology unveiled at the iGEM 2022 Grand Jamboree: 2022 was a milestone year, culminating with the first in-person gathering for the iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris, a major undertaking that was nearly 4 years in the making.

Regards,
John

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John Cumbers
Founder, SynBioBeta

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