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Imagine your clothes, workout apparel, and even your perfume were made from literal air - and for that matter, from greenhouse gases. Well, you don’t have to dream about it because it is already possible: LanzaTech is showing the world a new way to create materials and chemicals from captured carbon emissions. With biology, we can reimagine entire industries, reduce the environmental burden of consumption, and develop new innovative solutions, like plant-based silk made without traditional farming practices. So enjoy this week’s selection of synbio news, brought to you by LanzaTech.

• Meet 10 Women Who Are Leading The Synthetic Biology Revolution: These ten powerful women are shaping our world as company leaders, biosecurity experts, policymakers, and philanthropists focused on charting a new course to a more sustainable, equitable, clean, and safe future.

• H&M Move Partners with Lanzatech to Launch Capsule Collection Using Captured Carbon Emissions. H&M Move's upcoming three-piece drop for women includes a jumpsuit, a top and a pair of tights, partly made of LanzaTech CarbonSmart™ polyester with a DryMove™ finish.

• This Desktop Machine Is About To Transform The Decades-Old DNA Synthesis Industry: If you've worked as a researcher at any synbio company, you know the frustration of having to wait for DNA to be shipped to you. Thomas Ybert, co-founder and CEO of DNA Script, knows this feeling all too well—and this is why he decided to revolutionize the way scientists get their DNA.

Thomas Ybert, co-founder and CEO of DNA Script.

• On this episode of GEN Live, Shelby Newsad, PhD, Investor at the Venture Capital firm Compound, and I join GEN for a broad discussion on the state of synbio—where the field is now and where it’s heading. We’ll also preview the SynBioBeta meeting in May in Oakland, CA—including agenda highlights, the most anticipated talks, and the companies most likely to be breaking big news!

• Coty/Gucci announced the world’s first globally distributed fragrance made with 100% carbon emissions-derived ethanol from LanzaTech’s process. Last year LanzaTech announced a partnership with Coty and they made a pledge to incorporate 100% carbon emissions derived ethanol into all of their fragrances in 2023, so this is a big milestone in working toward that goal.

• Ginkgo Bioworks acquires StrideBio’s AAV capsid discovery and engineering platform, which generates capsids that are designed to overcome current limitations of first-generation gene therapies.

• AMSilk Secures Additional €25M, Totalling €54M for Bioproduced Silk Protein Materials. AMSilk’s unique biofabrication reprograms microorganisms to enable them to produce silk proteins from plant-based renewable raw materials without involving any farming processes.

What's new at SynBioBeta 2023:

SynBioBeta 2023: The Global Synthetic Biology Conference is just over six weeks away! We are looking forward to bringing together experts from around the world to discuss the latest advancements and innovations in synthetic biology. Thank you to our new sponsors: Yuri Gravity, NC Biotech, Elemental Machines, Budd Bioworks, Protera, Phycoil, Synlogic, Opentrons, Liberation Labs, ZBiotics, BioLM Amyris, Piknik, Protocol labs, Filecoin, Baruch Future, Ventures, Novozymes, Evonetix, Ecovative, CDD Vault, Pow.Bio, Neoplants.

Other news:

• Cemvita Unveils eCO2 Pilot Plant: Transforming CO2 Emissions into Renewable Feedstocks and Fertilizers. The platform promises to alleviate feedstock shortage and produce carbon-negative fuels and chemicals at competitive market rates.

• Logomix Inc. Starts Joint Research of Sustainable Amino Acid Production Method with Ajinomoto Co., Inc. By combining Ajinomoto Co.’s amino-acid production technologies and expertise with Logomix’s genome engineering platform, the two companies aim to innovate the amino-acid production biocycle.

It’s been a busy week in synthetic biology, I hope you have a good one!

Regards,
John

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John Cumbers
Founder, SynBioBeta

Who's hiring?

• Senior Sales Manager at SynBioBeta, Remote
• UX Software Engineer - Full Stack at MicroByre, Berkeley, CA
  
• Anthropocene Institute Oceans and F3 Aquaculture Program Coordinator, San Francisco, Bay Area
• R&D Intern at Ailurus Biotechnology, Beijing, China
• Bioinformatics Engineer at Latch Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Software Engineer at Latch Bio, San Francisco, CA
• Strategic Account Manager (Field Sales) at Quartzy, Charlottesville, VA
• Strategic Account Manager (Field Sales) at Quartzy, Boston, MA
• Engineering Technician, Instrument Manufacturing at DNA Script, South San Francisco, CA
• Director, Reagents & Kits Development at DNA Script, Paris, France
• Field Applications Scientist, San Francisco at DNA Script, San Francisco, CA
• Field Applications Scientist, East Coast at DNA Script, Boston, MA
• Business Developer at Ribbon Biolabs, Vienna (Austria) or Philadelphia (USA)
• Head of Production Engineering – DNA Synthesis at Ribbon Biolabs, Austria
• Disease Biology, Associate Director at Absci (Vancouver, WA)
• Experimental engineer for nanopore devices at IMEC, Belgium
• Microfluidic-electro researcher for life science technologies at IMEC, Belgium
• Microfluidics Designer Life Science Technologies at IMEC, Belgium
• Researcher Advanced Micro-Physiological Systems / Organ-on-Chip at IMEC, Belgium
• Protein Scientist at Colorifix, Norwich

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