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 $100,000 in synthetic DNA from Twist Bioscience, which will be used to advance their businesses.
“We are delighted to support the business proposals presented by all three contestants, all of which continue to drive innovation and growth within the synthetic biology industry,” said Patrick J. Finn, Ph.D., vice president of sales and marketing for Twist Bioscience. “Twist Bioscience provides synthetic genes on an unprecedented scale that, in turn, enables our partners to accelerate their research and development programs. We look forward to working further with each of these exciting companies as we expand our customer base through our upcoming beta program, scheduled to launch in early 2016, which will offer industry leading throughput, turnaround time and customer service.”