Synbio is Climate Tech

Today we’re thrilled to release three announcements centered around our work in sustainability. Our platform is enabling our partners to pursue extraordinarily impactful work. These three different cell engineering programs we’re beginning demonstrate that, more and more, companies and governments are recognizing that synbio is critical climate tech. Biology is joining other climate technologies because […]

Synthetic Biology for Climate Action

We believe synthetic biology has an important role to play in addressing climate change. Climate change is a global threat that requires immediate action. It’s already impacting every single person and living thing on our planet. The best time to address climate change was decades ago; the next best time? Now. So, what are we […]

Ginkgo Bioworks 2022 Sustainability Report Highlights Progress Towards a More Sustainable and Inclusive Future

Today, we published our 2022 Sustainability Report, Caring at Ginkgo, detailing Ginkgo’s views and progress towards addressing global challenges, such as climate change and biological threats, as well as outlining the practices supporting our commitment to thoughtfully deploy our platform, build a diverse and inclusive workforce, and continue to foster a culture of employee ownership. Synthetic […]

Ginkgo Microbe Services for Agriculture

Ginkgo Ferment 2023, Platform Presentation: Ginkgo’s Head of Agricultural Biologicals, Magalie Guilhabert, PhD covers how innovators can address the challenges growers face in today’s world, leveraging Ginkgo’s platform to discover new biological products and traits and optimize for performance and consistency. Watch the full presentation here or read below for a summary.   Growers face […]

Reflections from our 2022 Creative Resident: Corinne Okada Takara

A new kind of conversation space What are the spaces that anchor us in understanding and dreaming with science? I was introduced to science on my grandma’s lanai in Kahului, Maui. It was on that shaded porch where my father taught me and my sister to make pinwheels of hibiscus flowers and boats of bamboo […]

Governments

Overview Catalyzing biological innovations to solve today’s hardest challenges Ginkgo’s world-class synthetic biology platform provides resilient, sustainable, and innovative solutions to the challenges facing our society and world. Our range of capabilities combines computational design and ultra high throughput genetic engineering and screening with expertise in process development and manufacturing scale up. Ginkgo helps your […]

Exciting M&A Update: Scaling our Platform Capabilities

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. At Ginkgo, we’ve always strived to bring the best technologies—including biological tools, automation, and software—together onto one platform to better serve our customers.  Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve signed definitive agreements to acquire two teams and technologies that will help us achieve this important […]

From Ad Tech To Synthetic Biology

Introduction A couple months ago I came across this post on why young people seem to prefer working in ad tech than biotech. Given that I spent 10 years at a couple ad tech companies, and the past 5 years at a synthetic biology company, I have some opinions on the subject, and wanted to […]