Articles about Synthetic biology

UW Medicine geneticist Jay Shendure in lab

Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology plans to transform cells into tiny recording devices

The Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington have launched a collaboration called the Seattle Hub… Read More

A-Alpha Bio raises $2.8M for genetically engineered drug discovery platform

A Seattle startup that took root at the University of Washington has closed a $2.8 million seed round for a… Read More

Inside Arzeda’s synthetic biology lab, where industrial ingredients are brewed like beer

Alexandre Zanghellini can’t help but think about what makes up the world around him. Sitting in a conference room, Zanghellini… Read More

Clinical drug screening startup A-Alpha Bio awarded Small Business Innovation Research grant

A-Alpha Bio, a startup aiming to speed up the development of new drugs, announced Tuesday it has won a… Read More

Biomanufacturing company AbSci raises $12M to scale synthetic biology platform

Vancouver, Wash.,-based biotechnology company AbSci has raised a chunk of new money. The company announced Wednesday that it has just… Read More

Scientists program semi-synthetic bacteria to create an ‘alien’ protein that glows green

Researchers have reached a new milestone in their effort to expand the genetic alphabet of life by designing a strain… Read More

Arzeda raises another $3.2M for synthetic biology that uses fermentation to build new materials

Arzeda does work that sounds out of this world — or maybe straight out of science fiction. The company uses fermentation,… Read More

Seattle startup raises $12M to ‘rewrite the software of life’ (with a little help from the technology behind beer)

Proteins are incredibly important, but incredibly complicated, molecules. They control 98 percent of all biological functions and are used in industries… Read More

UW researchers reprogram genetic code to create digital circuitry inside living cells

Researchers from the University of Washington have taken advantage of synthetic biology to turn yeast cells into building blocks for digital… Read More