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11 October 20247 October 2024

NOVUS Leverages Ginkgo Bioworks to Develop Innovative Feed Additives for Animal Agriculture

By utilizing Ginkgo Enzyme Services, NOVUS will work with Ginkgo to build more efficient enzymes that can be produced cost-effectively

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22 August 202419 August 2024

Industry’s workhorse chemicals go biobased

Thousands of chemicals are used by consumers and businesses every day. At the base of most of their supply chains lie petrochemicals

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4 January 202420 December 2023

Agrivalle and Ginkgo Bioworks Enter Multiyear Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Next-Gen Ag Biological Products

Ginkgo intends to work with Agrivalle to discover and optimize plant-compatible microbes that can provide crop nutrition, and to engineer organisms that can make compounds to specifically target certain pests

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30 October 202325 October 2023

Government of Serbia and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Bioeconomy Collaboration in BIO4 Campus

Ginkgo aims to be the end-to-end synthetic biology R&D partner for companies at BIO4 exploring solutions in pharmaceuticals, food and agriculture, industry, and specialty chemicals

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12 May 20239 May 2023

Bio-PP and isoprene news

Visolis has recently partnered with Ginkgo Bioworks to reportedly improve its microbial strain for the production of bio-isoprene and SAF production

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8 May 20233 May 2023

Visolis and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Improve Microbial Strain for Bio-Isoprene and Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production

Partnership aims to enable cost-effective decarbonization of rubber tire manufacturing and sustainable aviation fuel production

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18 April 202318 April 2023

Solvay collaborates with Ginkgo Bioworks

The partnership will strengthen Solvay's position in biotechnology and complements the company’s activities in different key areas

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Solvay announces strategic collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks and expands its R&I footprint in the United States

The investment will accelerate the development of new sustainable biopolymers, strengthening Solvay’s position in biotechnology in this important growth platform

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3 April 202330 March 2023

The 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy 2023

The Digest slideshow of the top 50 bioeconomy companies

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15 February 202310 February 2023

Bioweg and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Develop Cost Effective and Efficacious Bio-Based Materials to Reduce the Use of Microplastic Pollutants

The two companies seek to develop green and clean alternatives to synthetic polymers

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Bioweg und Ginkgo Bioworks kündigen Partnerschaft zur Entwicklung kostengünstiger und wirksamer biobasierter Materialien zur Verringerung der Verwendung von Mikroplastik-Schadstoffen an

Die beiden Unternehmen versuchen, grüne und saubere Alternativen zu synthetischen Polymeren zu entwickeln

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20 September 202215 September 2022

White House Unveils Strategy To Grow Trillion Dollar U.S. Bioeconomy

Through the Executive Order, the Biden Administration calls for strategic federal investments in biotechnology, enhanced domestic biomanufacturing, and the formation of a sustainable workforce

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24 August 202216 August 2022

Ginkgo to Acquire Zymergen

Acquisition is expected to accelerate the development of Ginkgo's innovative horizontal synthetic biology platform

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6 October 20216 October 2021

Ginkgo Bioworks, valued at $15B, begins trading today: Here’s how their business works

Ginkgo Bioworks, a synthetic biology company now valued at around $15 billion, begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange today

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4 October 20211 October 2021

Ginkgo Bioworks to Begin Trading Today as NYSE: DNA with Over $1.6 Billion in Proceeds

New capital expected to fund the growth of Ginkgo's leading cell programming platform

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SynBio: The Science Behind LanzaTech’s Success

At its heart, LanzaTech is a cutting-edge synthetic biology or “SynBio” venture, as Wikipedia describes, “…a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature."

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14 September 20219 September 2021

Ginkgo Bioworks and Givaudan Enter Multi-Program Collaboration to Produce a Series of Ingredients

Through this collaboration, Givaudan plans to sustainably deliver products such as those that are only available in minute quantities in nature, using the natural world as inspiration for an expanded creative palette

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27 August 202126 August 2021

Huue and Ginkgo Bioworks Partner to Accelerate Production of Sustainable Dyes

Huue will leverage Ginkgo's platform to optimize microbe strains to accelerate production of its sustainable indigo dye, pioneering new models for product-focused startups to collaborate with Ginkgo

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16 June 202116 June 2021

Wall Street wins signal the start of a synthetic biology revolution

Last month, Ginkgo Bioworks landed a blank-check deal that valued the company at $15 billion, more than triple what it was worth last year

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9 June 202116 June 2021

Ginkgo Bioworks going public for $15bn SPAC deal

Company will be a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange and will continue to make other filings with the SEC in line with public company requirements

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26 May 202116 June 2021

Ginkgo Bioworks to go public at $15bn valuation as agrifood SPAC frenzy continues

$775 Million private investment in public equity (PIPE) deal from a range of new and existing investors

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17 March 202115 March 2021

Celebrating women CEOs in the renewable chemicals market

Here is a list of women CEOs blazing trails in the (renewable) chemicals market

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13 December 201910 December 2019

The Coming of Age of European Synthetic Biology

Within a few years, there has been a change from purely healthcare-focused applications to solving problems in industry and consumer products

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9 December 20198 December 2019

The 10 Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEOs in 2019. Now choose the number 1

The bioeconomy is innovation, the result of the skills and passion of researchers and managers able to create value and new high-qualified jobs

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23 October 201918 October 2019

About those biobased amines we might one day dream up at Ptixar Amination

This review presenting both fundamental and applied research on the synthesis of biobased primary and secondary amines with current available biobased resources

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27 September 201924 September 2019

Synthetic Biology Unicorn Ginkgo Bioworks Raises An Additional $290 Million

Company's dev shop for genetic programming is now worth $4 billion

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17 June 201912 June 2019

It’s Genomatica! Renowned San Diego bioeconomy hotshop to acquire REG Life Sciences

Successful companies increasingly switch to ingredients that reduce harm to the environment and work with partners with shared values

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3 May 201929 April 2019

You Can Now Smell a Flower That Went Extinct a Century Ago

The scent of a long-disappeared organism is once again in the air

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19 October 201816 October 2018

Millions in funding and partnerships bolster Genomatica’s personal care ingredient business

$90 million financing to accelerate new products; strengthens Ginkgo partnership

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20 December 201718 December 2017

Ginkgo’s insane $275M venture haul says it loud: Digital Biology is here

Public companies in practically every industry are starting to test, or invest in biology-driven tech

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7 December 20175 December 2017

Ginkgo Bioworks, ‘the organism company,’ is now worth over $1 billion

Large fundraising round suggests that the compyny has plenty of runway to keep developing new products

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30 October 201724 October 2017

Ginkgo BioWorks, Impossible Foods, Calysta, Bolt Threads, Zymergen take top slots in The 40 Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2016-17

It is the first time for Ginkgo at the top of the list, and the first time each of the others reached the top five

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26 October 201723 October 2017

Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks join forces for sustainable agriculture, forming new company with USD 100 million Series A

The novel company will focus on transformational beneficial microbes for plants to provide growers with next generation solutions to their biggest challenges

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Gemeinsam für eine nachhaltige Landwirtschaft: Bayer und Ginkgo Bioworks gründen ein neues Unternehmen mit einer Serie-A-Finanzierungsrunde von 100 Millionen US-Dollar

Das neue Unternehmen konzentriert sich auf transformative nützliche Mikroben für Pflanzen, um Landwirten völlig neue Lösungen für ihre größten Herausforderungen zu bieten

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5 October 201719 September 2017

Psst! The latest bioeconomy flashes from Bayer, Gingko, BioAmber, Joule, TerraVia, Corbion, Phytelligence, DNA Script

Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks will create a new company focused on the plant microbiome

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18 August 201717 August 2017

Genomatica goes big with Bio-BG

Why GENO BG is BIG news

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20 February 201716 February 2017

A Guide To The $13.4 Billion Biodesign Industry

Biodesign is a quickly growing field, and it will rely on designers as much as scientists. Here's our guide to what you need to know

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25 January 201723 January 2017

Bioplastics: disruptive shift to come

Biobased materials show a stable growth world-wide, according to nova-Institute and European Bioplastics

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24 January 201720 January 2017

VCs Invest $5.8 Billion in Bio-based Chemicals, as Focus Shifts to Disruptive Synthetic Biology

This year, synthetic biology startups have raised 53% of all VC funding in bio-based materials and chemicals, says Lux Research

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13 December 201610 December 2016

The Emerging Bioeconomy Ecosystems

Leaf Resources and Novozymes collaboration to further increase the yields and efficiency with Leaf Resources’ innovative biomass conversion technology

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12 December 20168 December 2016

Would You Feel Sexy Wearing Eau de Extinction?

Synthetic biologists seek to make perfumes from extinct trees and flowers

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25 November 201623 November 2016

SynBio is gearing up

Synthetic Biology's large field of applications became apparent at the EFIB-conference in Glasgow, last October

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14 November 20169 November 2016

Reverdia, Gingko BioWorks, Rennovia, Leaf Resources, Mango Materials take top slots in The 40 Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2016-17

The rankings recognize biotechnology innovation and achievement in fuels, biobased chemicals, nutrition, health, genetics and materials

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26 October 201624 October 2016

Ginkgo Bioworks and Prospect Bio to Collaborate on Tools to Accelerate Biological Engineering

Sensors allow for rapid screening of organism designs

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18 October 201617 October 2016

Ginkgo BioWorks, Reverdia and Calysta lead in early voting for the Hot 40

The Digest released the early-voting totals from Subscriber Voting — which do not yet include Social Votes or Invited International Selector votes

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11 October 201610 October 2016

The Rise of Organic Manufacturing: Ginkgo, Amyris, ’s circle of innovation is a trend to watch

Out with the old inorganic feedstocks like coal, oil and gas – in with the new feedstocks like woods, grasses, fibers and sugars

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8 October 20166 October 2016

Ginkgo Bioworks and Genomatica forge alliance to accelerate commercialization of more sustainable high-volume chemicals

Delivers the full package to chemical producers to cost-effectively make many mainstream chemicals

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28 September 201627 September 2016

Amyris & Ginkgo Bioworks Complete Collaboration Agreement to Accelerate Commercialization of Bio-Based Products

The agreement finalizes details of how the two companies will jointly develop cultured products more efficiently and cost effectively, accelerating time to market

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7 September 20165 September 2016

MIT News: Hacking microbes

Startup’s engineered yeast helps clients produce fragrances and flavors more efficiently

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18 August 201616 August 2016

Amyris: The New Colossus aims to unlock its Golden Door

Company sees 33% of its immediate growth coming from the health care sector