Hi ,

• Meat the Facts: How Your Burger's Carbon Footprint Just Got Grilled. If we swap out half of our meat and milk for plant-based goodies by 2050, we could slash those pesky greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by a whopping 31%.

• Normal Phenomena of Life Unveils Innovative Concept Store for Biophilic Living. Created by Faber Futures and Ginkgo Bioworks, NPOL fuses design, biotechnology, and craft to develop novel circular supply chains for responsibly made consumer products.

Natsai Audrey Chieza, Founder and CEO of Faber Futures, at SynBioBeta. 

• The Future of Sustainable Biomanufacturing is Microscopic Factories. Berkeley Lab scientists are revolutionizing the biomanufacturing realm with their groundbreaking “Product Substrate Pairing” workflow.

• Scala Biodesign Secures Seed Funding to Improve Protein Engineering and Development. In the heart of Tel Aviv, a silent revolution brews as Scala Biodesign bursts forth from the shadows, equipped with a neat $5.5M in funding and a groundbreaking promise: the rapid, efficient development of proteins ready to redefine biotech.

• A CAR-T Cell Side Project Takes Center Stage Offering Hope Beyond Cancer. By eliminating the need for lymphodepletion, the researchers aim to broaden the applicability of CAR-T-cell therapy to a wider range of diseases, including chronic conditions like lupus.

AI news:

• Machine Learning Enhances Antibody Discovery: A Glimpse into LabGenius and Sanofi's Collaborative Endeavour. This partnership sought to merge LabGenius' prowess in machine learning, robotic automation, and synthetic biology with Sanofi's seasoned expertise in the therapeutic crafting of NANOBODY heavy chain variable domains.

• Machine learning biotech raises $273 million in rare successful late-stage round: Generate was founded in 2018 by venture-creation firm Flagship Pioneering to use machine learning algorithms to identify antibodies, peptides, cell therapies, and other medicines.

• From Build to Scale: Enabling LLMs in Life Science Enterprises: Join the Life Science Tech Collective Meetup hosted by Genentech for an exciting discussion on Large Language Models (LLM) and their transformative impact on life sciences. (October 4, 2023, South San Francisco)

Other news:

• Factorial Biotechnologies will leverage Ginkgo Enzyme Services to develop a novel isothermal DNA polymerase for use in their single-cell next-generation sequencing (NGS) library prep kit. (Press Release)

• Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants. You might have seen it at SynBioBeta: Startup Light Bio has created a bioluminescent petunia using mushroom genes and plans to start shipping the plants next spring. (Wired)

Keith Wood, CEO of Light Bio, at SynBioBeta.

• HO Sports Unveils Sabre Water Ski, Displacing Traditional Petroleum-Based Materials With Checkerspot’s Biobased Foam Core: New Sabre Water Ski Developed in Partnership with Biotechnology Company To Bring High Performance Biomaterials to Water Sports Industry. (Press release)

• Register now for the Global Life Sciences/Healthcare Entrepreneurship Course - Virtual Master Class Direct from Silicon Valley with Stephanie Marrus, Managing Director, Entrepreneurship at the University of California, San Francisco.

• CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome: The world-famous biochemist is ready to tackle everything from immune disorders and mental illness to climate change—all by altering microbes in the digestive tract. (Wired)

• UK deep tech gets another boost with new $100M SCVC fund out of Bristol: The Bristol-based firm will invest in deep tech around health and climate. (TechCrunch)

• Genetically modified bacteria break down plastics in Saltwater. The modified organism can break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET). (NC State University)

• Ganymede Bio and Kytopen Partner to Bring Cloud-Native, Structured Data to Gene-Modified Cell Therapy Instruments. The collaboration aims to integrate Ganymede's Lab-as-Code™ platform with Flowfect Discover™ and Flowfect Tx™ devices. (Press Release)

Regards,
John

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John Cumbers

CEO, SynBioBeta

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