Synthenic biology

IARPA Awards Draper Multi-Year $7.8 Million Contract to Improve Biodetection Security

July 5, 2018

Draper has been awarded a three-and-a-half-year $7.8 million contract by IARPA (The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, National Intelligence Directorate) as part of the FELIX Program to research and develop tools to enable [more...]

Cheap DNA Sequencing Is Here. Writing DNA Is Next

November 23, 2015

At Twist Bioscience’s office in San Francisco, CEO Emily Leproust pulled out of her tote bag two things she carries around everywhere: a standard 96-well plastic plate ubiquitous in biology labs and her company’s invention, a silicon [more...]

Gen9 Announces Call for Entries for the Fourth Annual G-Prize

September 20, 2015

Gen9, Inc., the pioneer in developing scalable technologies for synthesizing and assembling DNA, today announced that it is accepting entries for its fourth annual G-Prize competition. Launched and exclusively run by Gen9, the G-Prize is [more...]

Challenging Biological Limits With Microfluidic Single Cell Analysis

September 8, 2015

Author: Christian Dusny and Andreas Schmid, Article first published online: 28 JAN 2015, DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12252 Back in the 17th century, van Leeuwenhoek was the first to advance into the microbial universe with his simple, but [more...]