Insights

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...

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

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

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…

I have a love hate relationship with plastic –I expect many others feel the same. Plastic is undoubtedly a fantastic packaging material – it can be flexible or rigid, transparent or opaque, it can be engineered to have good barrier properties and of course it is cheap.

Just as the industrial revolutions of the previous centuries were enabled by novel technologies such as the spinning jenny, steam engine, and transistor, the tools and techniques for engineering biological machinery, known...

Synthetic biology has been recognized as one of the most promising technologies that may impact our future and I, for one, believe that its potential applications are remarkable and incredibly diverse. In this series...