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The organism company. $DNA

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@Ginkgo
Ginkgo Bioworks
3 years
The future won’t be mined, extracted, wired or launched. It will be grown.
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What if you could grow anything?
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Today is a very exciting day for the team here at Ginkgo Bioworks. Our mission has always been to make biology easier to engineer. This announcement marks the beginning of a new chapter in our journey to realize our vision for synthetic biology.
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*Ginkgo
@adamfeuerstein
Adam Feuerstein ✡️
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Sorry, not sorry, but Gingko does not deserve the $DNA ticker.
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Ginkgo Bioworks
3 years
One small bell, one giant moment for bioworkers. If we can rewrite the DNA of organisms, what will we do with the power we have to write the future of biology? Ginkgo's bioworkers built this platform, and they're building it for everyone, so we can write that future together.
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@Ginkgo
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We’re thrilled to announce that we've received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation! Under the grant, we will work to develop a live cell therapeutic that can produce antibodies to fight HIV and/or malaria directly in the body. Learn more:
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Ginkgo Bioworks
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We're thrilled that @light_bio will now begin selling their groundbreaking bioluminescent Firefly Petunias! 50,000 plants are available for purchase on their website and can be shipped to all 48 contiguous states in the US. One plant costs $29 USD and customers will start…
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You heard it here first: the brilliant @CathieDWood will be in conversation w/our very own @TomKnightSynBio at Ferment this October. We're excited to talk cell programming, disruptive innovation, & the future of synbio. (You can also RT this to enter our ticket raffle!) #woodgang
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@Ginkgo
Ginkgo Bioworks
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What is synthetic biology? What if we could grow everything? We created a website to highlight stories about cutting-edge synthetic biology being applied for good—and making the world more open, equitable, and sustainable. Read more on :
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Buckle up — we’ve got a lot of exciting news to share today! Introducing Ginkgo’s Technology Network: a groundbreaking ecosystem of cutting edge technology partners, all committed to collaborating with Ginkgo to provide new, integrated capabilities to drive success in customer…
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@Ginkgo
Ginkgo Bioworks
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We're teaching AI to speak DNA! "The same way that foundation models like OpenAI's GPT are trained on the English language, they can "learn to speak DNA," @jrkelly said. "DNA is a sequential coded language, very similar to a book."
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So incredibly proud and excited to debut the first issue of Ginkgo's annual magazine, Grow. Synthetic biology is beautiful, complex, messy, and full of what if's. We wanted to create a brand that showed people that.
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Ginkgo Bioworks
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Today we're so excited to announce the successful completion of our gene therapy collaboration with @biogen ! Find out more:
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We've been busy working with teams that can leverage our platform to accelerate the development of products for the COVID-19 response. Today we're committing $25M of free access to our platform for partner COVID-19 projects:
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We're so excited to announce that we've been awarded a 5-year contract alongside @saponiQx , totaling up to $31 million, to discover and develop next-generation vaccine adjuvants! This award comes to us from Medical CBRN [Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear] Defense…
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We've successfully completed the first milestone of our multi-product collaboration with @phytolon ! By leveraging Ginkgo Natural Product Services, Phytolon has significantly improved the efficiency of its yeast strains to generate vibrant, sustainable food colors and offer…
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At Ginkgo, we're working with @Google to teach AI to speak DNA, and we're hiring! Want to leverage biological data at unparalleled scale to train AI? Fill out a general app and mark it with "Artificial Intelligence" here:
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We're pleased to share that Ginkgo has been awarded up to $6 million from @DARPA to produce novel proteins to control ice in extreme cold weather environments.
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Yes, we're working with Google to teach AI to speak DNA. No, this video was not produced by DNAI. As far as we know... (After all, biology is easy to program, but hard to predict.) 🤖💻🔬🌱
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We are excited to announce two new acquisitions today: Altar, a French biotechnology company that has developed a proprietary adaptive evolution platform, and Circularis, a biotechnology company with a proprietary circular RNA & promoter screening platform
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Ginkgo Bioworks
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Biology offers all of us a chance to fundamentally change how things are made. Biomanufacturing can help us face our biggest challenges, including fossil fuel dependency, food security and malnutrition, supply chain resilience, and pollution. Here’s how it works:
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Oxygen free automation! Here's some photos from the ribbon cutting of our new anaerobic foundry space, expanding what we can do for our customers working with strains of anaerobic microbes 🤖🦠
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@Ginkgo
Ginkgo Bioworks
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Ginkgo's mission is to make biology easier to engineer. One of the ways we're doing that is by automating colony picking:
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Synbio is climate tech. Today, we're thrilled to release three announcements centered around our work in sustainability! Find out more:
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“We were the kids dreaming about dinosaurs and learning how to program computers. Today we dream that kids in the future will be learning how to program cells.”
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Today we're so excited to announce our new partnership with @imagindairy ! Together, we aim to deliver a global solution for animal-free non-whey dairy protein production in a highly cost-effective manner.
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We’re so excited to announce this initiative! “There is a common misconception that only those with advanced degrees are qualified for jobs in the life sciences field. It's time for that misconception to be corrected.” - ⁦ @reshmapshetty
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We're excited to announce our acquisition of Modulus Therapeutics’ cell therapy platform assets, including their chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and switch receptor libraries!
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We're excited to announce our collaboration with Zenfold Sustainable Technologies! "This collaboration will enable us to apply our state-of-the-art enzyme discovery module to enable more innovation in the veterinary medicine space." - Jennifer Wipf
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Ginkgo Bioworks
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🗞 ​Ginkgo Bioworks Saves Pup 🗞 At approximately 11:51am today we discovered a shivering dog hanging around the Drydocks. We miraculously found a matching lost dog post on Reddit and reunited the dog with its owner. This is truly the news you need this Friday afternoon ❤❤❤
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We're so excited to announce our partnership with OneOne Biosciences! We believe ag biologicals represent the future of sustainable, successful agriculture & are eager to support innovators like OneOne enter the market with cutting-edge solutions. More:
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@Ginkgo
Ginkgo Bioworks
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The future won’t be mined, extracted, wired or launched. It will be grown.
@Ginkgo
Ginkgo Bioworks
2 years
Biology offers all of us a chance to fundamentally change how things are made. Biomanufacturing can help us face our biggest challenges, including fossil fuel dependency, food security and malnutrition, supply chain resilience, and pollution. Here’s how it works:
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Hello everyone, this is Barry tweeting today. I and my cofounders will be doing some tweeting this week to celebrate the fact that @Ginkgoo just turned 10! That is an order of magnitude longer than some people expected. Here's to many more years to come!
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We're so excited to announce our partnership with AQUA Cultured Foods ( @eatAquaFoods )!
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"I don't know of any other engineering field where people just wander out in the woods and go collect new pieces of advanced technology and it's completely disruptive to that industry." - @jrkelly , on synthetic biology
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We had the pleasure of hosting the @committeeonccp yesterday. "Essentially, our facilities are factories that produce the biological data that powers the AI-enabled bioeconomy, and it was an honor to share them with members of the Committee." - @jrkelly
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“Ginkgo belongs to the bioworkers. We should make sure we do something meaningful with it in the world.” - @jrkelly
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. @Ginkgo knows how to celebrate 🎉 It’s in their $DNA 🧬
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Did you miss #GinkgoInvestorDay ? 🧵 We 🦖hosted a Founders chat 🚶toured the Foundry and the Codebase 🧾talked IP strategy 🗣️heard from customers & strategic ventures 🔐explored our approaches to biosecurity & ESG 💵reviewed financials ❓did live Q&A
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Can you guess what our new stock ticker will be? First to guess correctly gets some sweet GMO swag! We'll unveil the answer on Friday
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It's alive! Today, we're announcing the opening of Bioworks7, the latest expansion of our biological engineering foundry.
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Today, we're excited to announce an opportunity for current students or recent graduates to join us at Ginkgo for a three-month PAID public policy fellowship (remote possible). Application is just CV, a reference contact, and a 500-word essay a topic of interest. Due May 7th!
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Joseph Fridman
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i would apply to this in an instant if i didn't already work @Ginkgo
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Ginkgo Bioworks
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Ginkgo’s strategy for making biology easier to engineer in the AI era can be summarized with three words: “Data is Queen.”
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Ginkgo Bioworks
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Today, we are pleased to announce a research partnership with ⁦ @Syngenta ⁩. The results of this research are intended to inform future seed trait development so that farmers can grow healthier and more resilient crops. Read more on our blog:
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Today we're thrilled to provide updates on our business at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, live and on webcast at 9:45am PT/12:45pm ET. Read more on our blog: Watch the webcast:
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Ginkgo Bioworks
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Gingko Goes West! Since announcing our partnership with @OctantBio , we’ve been scaling up a state-of-the-art lab in Emeryville. Join us as we bring Ginkgo’s culture of innovation, care, and growth to the Bay Area:
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Here's our first lab ... built almost entirely from secondhand equipment for a grand total of $150k!
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Who else is fixated on nitrogen fixation?
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Exciting news! We’re acquiring @Zymergen ! Join our conference call this morning at 8:30am ET Press release: Investor call link: Key info:
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Today, we’re excited to announce a new partnership with @Prokarium to develop a bactofection platform to deliver RNA-based therapeutics. We’ll be working to engineer a Salmonella-based platform for the delivery of RNA payloads to treat cancer patients.
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@Ginkgo
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Today we launch Normal Phenomena of Life — a first-of-its-kind biodesign lifestyle brand. NPOL, a collaboration w/ @FaberFutures , will offer biodesigned products, like bacterially-dyed garments & prints made with algae ink, in limited edition collections.
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"Around the world, scientist and entrepreneurs are integrating abundant renewable energy, more powerful batteries, breakthroughs in fields like synthetic biology, to invent a better future that is healthier and more affordable." - @BarackObama
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We’re excited to announce the launch of , an end-to-end COVID-19 testing service designed for communities, supporting schools and businesses in their reopening strategies
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From our Ginkgo Family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving! We'll be back on twitter next week! BUT FIRST... We baked a bird for y'all using an acoustic liquid handler to plate some bacterial colonies. Check out our Echo-Art! Thanks to Chefs Ruchita, Huey Ming, Ming, and Cam!
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We’re so excited to announce that FGen AG — a subsidiary of Ginkgo based in Switzerland — has been tapped by the EIC to work on developing a sustainable, alternative approach to milk production using only CO2 and electricity. Find out more:
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We're so excited to announce the acquisition of @agbiome 's platform assets! This includes over 115,000 fully sequenced and isolated strains, over 500 million unique gene sequences, and relevant functional data and metadata, as well as AgBiome’s development pipeline. These…
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We're excited to announce our collaboration with Vivici! Read more about why Vivici has selected Ginkgo to extend their range of novel dairy proteins:
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It took a massive convergence of technological disciplines, social changes, and economies of scale to make the computing economy possible. We truly believe that the potential of the bioeconomy over the next century can make the last century of computing seem small in comparison.
@CathieDWood
Cathie Wood
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According to @aurmanARK 's research, if biotech companies capitalize on the convergence between and among DNA sequencing, artificial intelligence, and gene editing/therapies, health care will enter a golden age that could be better than that in the 80's and '90s!
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We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with Agrivalle, a leading Brazilian agricultural biologicals company! Learn more:
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We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with @GreenLabMfg ! Ginkgo has been tapped to discover and develop an enzyme that will be critical to the success of GreenLab's PFAS ('forever chemicals') degradation application. Find out more:
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“The most precious thing you have is your life energy and what you choose to pour it into. For the first time, we can see the path of how to design biology more systematically & address the problems we’re facing & create a better world.” - @reshmapshetty
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Catch @jrkelly discussing Ginkgo’s work on COVID vaccines on @60Minutes on tonight’s episode!
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There will be dragons.
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Kartik Dixit
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We should make @Ginkgo the biggest company on the planet and see the magic unfold. 🪄
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We're thrilled to announce the stellar lineup for our "Beyond Bits and Bases" panel at Ferment! @AnnaMarieWagner , Ginkgo’s Head of AI, will sit down with Karen Akinsanya from Schrödinger, @IyaKhalil from @Merck , @gibsmk from @FlagshipPioneer and  @generate_biomed , and…
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Ginkgo Bioworks
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We didn't invent biology - biology invented us. With synthetic biology, we can work with nature to keep our air breathable, our water clean, and our communities habitable. Join us to learn more about how we can all grow a solarpunk future, together.
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“The world needs effective biosecurity. Building hubs like CUBE-D to connect Ginkgo's network of international biosurveillance nodes transcends regionalism and lays a foundation for the future. After all, biology doesn't respect borders. I am proud of Ginkgo's ability to…
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Ginkgo Biosecurity
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We are thrilled to announce an agreement with @QatarFreeZones and @DohaCapital to build CUBE-D, a first of its-kind regional nucleus for global pathogen monitoring.
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@Ginkgo
Ginkgo Bioworks
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🎵 Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure recombination 🎵
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Jake Wintermute 🪵
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Super excited to be visiting ginkgo bioworks today extremely impressed by the platform and overall vibe
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Today we are pleased to announce our partnership with Visolis, a company combining advanced bioengineering with chemical catalysis to provide sustainable, carbon-negative materials.
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Live now: CEO @jrkelly joins the White House Summit on Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing.
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Today, we are pleased to announce a multi-product collaboration with ⁦ @wernamuh ⁩, an infant nutrition company, to develop functional oligosaccharides that are structurally identical to those found in human breast milk.
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Look ma, no pipette tips! We use the way cool Labcyte Echo liquid handlers to set up our PCRs (amongst many processes) at Ginkgo. They’re Greta Thunberg approved!
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Today we're pleased to announce that the DOE has awarded a Ginkgo-led team funding to build revolutionary algal crop protection solutions! Find out more:
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We're excited to announce our participation in the 27th American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Annual Meeting! We will present three posters in cell therapy and give one oral presentation in mRNA therapeutics. Find out more:
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"Simply put, synthetic biology is the field of biology that manipulates and reprograms the DNA, or biological code, of living organisms to generate an alternative natural product." - @bfrist
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Introducing Humans of Ginkgo Bioworks — an interview series led by our very own Sudeep Agarwala ( @shoelaces3 )! Here, Sudeep will speak with some of the brilliant folks at Ginkgo to learn more about the technology that makes our work possible.
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Excited to share another panel happening at Ferment! Our very own @rwegrzyn will moderate, joined by @ScottGottliebMD , @RickABright , and Brandi Vann on how synthetic biology can deliver better biosecurity in an effort to ensure that we never see a pandemic like Covid-19 again
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