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Meet the founders, backers, and decision makers driving the next wave of biotech innovation at SynBioBeta 2026.
📍SynBioBeta 2026
May 4–7, 2026 • San Jose
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The room where bio partnerships get made. Pharma BD, corporate venture, and 2,000 founders — all in San Jose, May 4–7.
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- Researchers at MIT grew wood-like plant tissue in the lab, which, if scaled up, could perhaps one day lead to the development of lab-grown wood, fiber, and other biomaterials aimed at reducing the environmental footprint of forestry and agriculture.
- "I use tobacco plants to produce antibodies for drug development, to fight diseases including cancer and COVID-19. We introduce the genes coding for the pharmaceutical proteins and the plants make them." - Audrey Teh, molecular immunologist go.nature.com/3jc7dcW
- Big news for @EligoBio: a $224M deal with @GSK! 👏 The company's #CRISPR-based acne treatment disables harmful bacterial genes that induce acne while leaving the rest of the skin #microbiome intact! 🦠 bit.ly/3oywktP
- Biotech entrepreneur George Church launches gene therapy startup to design safer viral vectors
- Save the date for #synbiobeta2019: October 1–3, 2019. We'll be opening pre-registration at midnight! Save $350 with code SBB2019 bit.ly/2RdjYqJ #synbio #syntheticbiology #bioeconomy
- The Quest for the Single Antibody to End the COVID-19 Pandemic: bit.ly/3dpAu1e @ourworldmag @avaatresh @CurlyJungleJake
- Startup packs all 16GB of Wikipedia onto DNA strands to demonstrate new storage tech: Biological molecules will last a lot longer than the latest computer storage technology, @catalogdna believes. cnet.co/2NwpUxc #DNAdatastorage #synbio #datastorage #digitaldata
- Meet the scientists who created the first open-source COVID-19 vaccine: These two infectious disease experts worked fast to create an effective COVID-19 vaccine, get it manufactured, and then give it away to the world, patent-free.
- .@CurlyJungleJake is an admirer of the human immune system — but he thinks we can do better. His company @centivax announced that they have created optimized antibodies that protect hamsters from lethal amounts of the virus that causes #COVID19. bit.ly/2YInUV4
- What are the defining milestones from the last 20 years of #syntheticbiology? Tim Gardner, @riffyn founder and CEO, will be highlighting the community’s view of the defining moments in the history of #synbio at #SynBioBeta2018. Watch the live stream Oct 3 bit.ly/2y4H0av
- Researchers made golden rice extra gold with #CRISPR: Using this technique, drought- and pest-resistance genes could be inserted into food crops to make them more productive bit.ly/3qOfNno
- You probably know what Rosalind Franklin did for science. But you should know these pioneers too. In honor of #InternationalWomensDay, meet three overlooked scientists who blazed trails for modern synthetic biology 👩🔬ow.ly/yUee50DTdbA #IWD2021 #WomensHistoryMonth
