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Synthetic Biology

Engineering biological systems to create new functions — from designing novel enzymes and metabolic pathways to building cell factories for drug manufacturing. Enables production of complex molecules at scale.

Key Companies

Ginkgo BioworksTwist BioscienceZymergenAmyrisCodexis

Recent Signals

DEALS & FUNDING

Ginkgo Bioworks Signs Three New Pharma Partnerships for Cell Line Engineering

The synthetic biology platform expands its pharmaceutical footprint, applying its cell programming platform to optimize CHO cell lines for biologics manufacturing and engineer microbial strains for complex natural product synthesis.

Apr 6, 2026 · 4 min read

AI Tools

AiZynthFinder

Multi-step retrosynthetic planning tool using Monte Carlo tree search guided by neural network policies. Recursively breaks down target molecules into purchasable precursors. Production-used at AstraZeneca.

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