Biology labs today suffer the same problem computers had before the invention of the integrated circuit:
- too many parts
- each device does only one task
- parts don't talk to each other
This paradigm-shifting technology could replace traditional labs: forbes.com/sites/johncumb
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It's been a busy week for bio companies 🧬
Check out this great piece by in Forbes highlighting the tech + vision of , Loren, and the Melonfrost team 🍈 ❄️
*Phenomenal* company.
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ChatGPT for biology? Excited to share our work on LLMs for protein design out today
nature.com/articles/s4158
+ Proud to publicly announce with a $9M seed round to tackle meaningful challenges in biology with AI. Join us!
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Who are the most amazing speakers in biology who just blow your mind and teach you something new every time you hear them? Who are the Feynman-level communicators who carry you along and make you feel like a genius?
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My 11 year old daughter reacts to me meeting . Most of the grownups don’t know who he is. But the kids know! He’s one of the best educational youtubers out there and my kids learn so much from him. Thanks Nuseir Yassin!
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This week’s newsletter is bringing you news and updates about
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, and Melonfrost, among others. Learn about a superplant that can purify air in your home and CRISPR gene edited fish that could soon make it to your dinner table: synbiobeta.activehosted.com/index.php?acti
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— just the next step towards re-wiring how the world’s resources come to be and move around for two childhood best friends.
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Melonfrost’s $7 million seed round, led by Refactor Capital and Alexandria Venture Investments, will allow the company to continue building out its hardware and work with its first customer in the edible fats space of the food sector
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By coupling proprietary hardware — the Evolution Reactor — with state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms — Maia — Melonfrost is learning and applying the rules of evolution in an automated closed-loop system, by exploring thousands of parallel evolutionary trajectories.
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Growing microbes for applications ranging from food to therapeutics all face a key challenging — engineering novel optimized strains at scale. Brooklyn-based start-up Melonfrost aims to change this paradigm by harnessing the power of evolution.
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Inscripta CEO Sri Kosaraju expressed his growing confidence in the market potential of #synbio. Read more about the company’s move:
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The company acquired & Sestina Bio in a pivot toward end-to-end manufacturing of bio-based products. Sestina, Inscripta's former customer, demonstrated the power of its tech by making a scale-up-ready strain for the production of ingredient #bakuchiol in <12 months.
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., a global leader in genome engineering, is reimaging what a #syntheticbiology company model looks like. As #biomanufacturing transforms entire sectors of our economy, Inscripta is set to capture the opportunity with a more efficient approach to making bioproducts.
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. is putting its Codebase and Foundries to work, so that their customers can focus on the downstream applications instead of building out an expensive R&D infrastructure. Learn more about the company’s latest offering:
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#Enzymes are a multi-billion dollar market. These tiny biological machines are the drivers of the #bioeconomy, with applications from #biopharma to agriculture, food, cosmetics and more. The big challenge is how to engineer better enzymes faster and cheaper.
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The folks at VantageFilms created a video to explain 's material platform by showing beautiful and useful products that can be created with mycelium. "The better you can tell your story, the more people are going to buy into it," says Andy Bass: vimeo.com/787589176
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Congratulations to for leading the African Bioeconomy. I'll see you in Uganda in July!
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Announcing @johncumbers the Founder and CEO of @SynBioBeta as the first #Keynote #Speaker for our upcoming @SynBioAfrica SBA.2 #SynBio #Conference in Kampala, Uganda from 12-14th July 2023.
If you haven't bought your ticket, book it here
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This week, we’d like to highlight a conversation between a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a #biotech investor, offer some food for thought about nourishing the world, and encourage you to rethink your morning cup of coffee. Read our newsletter: synbiobeta.activehosted.com/index.php?acti
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The #biocomputer can facilitate distributed #biomanufacturing, bring down the cost of cell & gene therapies, make bio labs more like smart factories with #Industry40 technologies, and maybe even power up long space expeditions:
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., a company out of Cambridge, UK is building the first #biocomputer that can replace a whole lab. Here is how:
1) they map your lab’s process
2) design a custom solution that fits in one box
3) 3D print the parts
4) program the system for optimal performance
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SOSV is at Davos, and today we hosted a panel on the bio-economy with Synbiobeta's John Cumbers, Ginkgo Bioworks' Jennifer Wipf, Stanford's Megan Palmer, and SOSV's Sean O'Sullivan. Resolved: Bio-engineering's economic impact will rival the digital revolution!
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‘The dream of biosecurity infrastructure’ - The CDC program fits into the Biden administration’s broader vision for using the lessons learned during the Covid pandemic to bolster the nation’s defenses.
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I'm on a mission to #BiologizeDavos join our #SyntheticBiology panel tomorrow at 2pm #BiologizeEverything #Davos23 Thanks
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. sharing his ideas on decentralized science, longevity, public goods funding, ai and scientific progress broadly
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🙏 to friend for a bottle! may try it before the happy hour tonight 🍻
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Bacteria replicate DNA at crazy speeds & accuracy. 💨
If DNA polymerase was a USPS truck, and each home was a single nucleotide:
This truck would deliver to every home in the U.S. in 65 hours. It would do this about 4 times without making a single mistake.
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I hear #Davos23 has a drinking problem so I’ve stocked up on this “Pre-Alcohol Probiotic” from ZBiotics. Let me know if you’ll be there and want to try some!
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Visolis, a Berkeley-based biomanufacturing startup, just closed a seed funding round led by BlueYard Capital, bringing total funding to $8M.
The company is reimagining the future with its high-performance, carbon-negative materials:
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You’ve seen it used for images like DALL-E, you’ve seen it with text like ChatGPT. Did you know you can use #GenerativeAI to design proteins, too? Check out what has announced today:
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Happy New Year! We hope you are as excited as we are at SynBioBeta to see what 2023 has in store for the industry. Let’s start off with a round of funding news to kick off another incredible year of #synbio innovation: synbiobeta.activehosted.com/index.php?acti
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CEO of Asimov, Alec Nielsen says cells are programmable by their very nature. “The ability to engineer this gift of evolution is going to be the most meaningful and impactful technology that humans have ever developed.”
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The basic building blocks of life laid out, stepwise, able to predict the performance of cellular components as if modeling those of a rocketship… It’s what synthetic biology dreams are made of.
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What if we had custom cell lines and genetic templates together with computer-aided design software, equipped with a database of parts and validation tools, to predict how new combinations will work?
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Antibodies, gene therapies and mRNA can transform healthcare, but making these mammalian cell products is a huge bottleneck. Trial and error discovery is slow. Production is inefficient & full of impurities.
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What’s the holy grail of biology? This startup says it’s engineerable cells, and with $200million of new funding for their CAD platform to program genetic circuits, the manufacture of biological therapeutics is set to radically change. Read how:
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The future of farming has the potential to create a whole new ecosystem of high value products that are built with the tools of biotechnology. Read my interview with Martita Mestey of :
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