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Our whitepaper looks at the potential of PHA bioplastics in the food service industry. We've designed a range of sustainable, biodegradable plastic products, all served up on a bioplastic tray...

News that the NHS will offer CAR-T therapy is welcome but big challenges lie ahead in making it available to a all patients. New automated manufacturing processes are essential to bring down the price and ensure the benefits of CAR-T therapy become reality...

Following the proposed ban on plastic straws and cotton buds in England, our new infographic shows how versatile bioplastics could help.

The emerging field of biodesign has famously led to apples that do not go brown, meat burgers that don’t require livestock and spider-less silk. Biodesign is also widely harnessed to develop life-changing drugs, create...

I’ve just got back to the office from a very interesting workshop looking to address the challenge of delivering rapid microbial testing in cell and gene products...

Earlier this year, we hosted a thought-leadership workshop for leaders and influencers in synthetic biology, to discuss the challenges facing the industry, and what new tools...

Synthetic biology remains nascent, yet full of promise. The idea of using rational engineering approaches to design biology has the potential to solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges, such as securing food supplies...

As part of Cambridge Consultants’ Synthetic Biology initiative, we attended the Commercialising Industrial Biotechnology conference in San Diego

SynbiCITE's UK Synbio Start-up Survey 2017 is a chance to recap the most exciting developments in British Synthetic Biology. The launch later this week of SynbiCITE's UK Synbio Start-up Survey 2017 is...

Francis Crick Institute presents evidence of the ability of liquid biopsy to detect the presence of minute samples of circulating tumour DNA

Cell-free synthetic biology is a young but burgeoning sub-field of synthetic biology and has seen rapid and exciting progress in recent years. As the name implies, cell-free synthetic biology involves the implementation...

Surgical robots today are large and unwieldy – which causes a number of challenges in the operating theatre.

If the robot can be made smaller, many of the current limitations disappear. The trick is how to reduce size without sacrificing performance. We believe it’s possible…