Emily Leproust, CEO and cofounder of the buzzy biotech startup Twist Bioscience, is an industrialist on the nanoscale. “I remind everyone at Twist, we are a manufacturing company,” she says. “We manufacture DNA.” Twist is part of the young industry … Continued
Selecta Biosciences, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of targeted antigen-specific immune therapies, today announced the dosing of the first patient in the Company’s Phase 1b clinical trial to assess the safety, pharmacodynamic profile and efficacy of … Continued
Computer data has been depicted as microscopic magnetic smudges, electric charges and even Lilliputian patterns of dots that reflect laser beams. It may ultimately move into the fabric of life itself — encoded in the organic molecules that are strung … Continued
Twist Bioscience, a company focused on synthetic DNA, today announced that its CEO, Emily Leproust, Ph.D., has been selected as one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015 for fast-tracking the building blocks of life. Each year, Foreign … Continued
AT TWIST BIOSCIENCE’S office in San Francisco, CEO Emily Leproust pulled out of her tote bag two things she carries around everywhere: a standard 96-well plastic plate ubiquitous in biology labs and her company’s invention, a silicon wafer studded with … Continued
Smart glass just got a lot bigger, and View, a maker of dynamic glass, wants that fact to be as transparent as possible. At the Greenbuild show this week, they rolled out several sheets of the high-tech glass, measuring 6 … Continued
Twist Bioscience, a company focused on synthetic DNA, today congratulated alGas Biotech, GigaGen and Koliber Biosciences on winning the Blue Sky Bio Competition hosted by SynBioBeta 2015. As part of the prize, these companies will receive a combined total of … Continued
Twist Bioscience, a company focused on synthetic DNA, and Ginkgo Bioworks, an organism design company, today announced an unprecedented agreement for the purchase of synthetic DNA. Twist Bioscience will supply Ginkgo Bioworks with a minimum of 100 million base pairs … Continued
Overstock is building the hippest place to work in America. That’s CEO Patrick Byrne’s goal, at least. When the company’s new Salt Lake City office, the “Peace Coliseum,” opens next year, it will offer an extensive list of Silicon Valley–style … Continued
Emulate, Inc., today announced that data on its Brain-on-Chip was presented by its collaborators at Cedars Sinai’s Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, who led the research and provided induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from patient samples to enable this … Continued