Ginkgo Bioworks

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Ginkgo Bioworks

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Founded
2009

Patents
15

Publications
68

Ginkgo Bioworks designs, engineers, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals.

Gingko Bioworks also provides probiotic bacteria to protect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.

Tom Knight, Reshama Shetty, Jason Kelly, Barry Canton, and Austin Che founded Ginkgo Bioworks in 2009. Its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts.

Interviews

Cracking the Code of Life: An Interview with Stef van Grieken, CEO of Cradle, on AI-Driven Protein Engineering

Posts Mentioning This Company

14 Companies Pioneering AI Foundation Models in Pharma and Biotech

Foundation models represent a new paradigm in artificial intelligence (AI), revolutionizing how machine learning models are developed and deployed. As these models grow increasingly capable, they become useful for applications across a wide range of economic functions and industries, including biotech. Foundation models are a class of large-scale machine learning …

The Growing Momentum for AI Foundation Models in Biotech and 12 Notable Companies

As artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models grow increasingly capable, they become useful for applications across a wide range of economic functions and industries, including biotech. The most prominent examples of general purpose foundation models are the GPT-3 and GPT-4 models, which form the basis of ChatGPT, and BERT, or Bidirectional …

AI in Synthetic Biology: From Gene Editing to Pathway Design

From Gene Editing to Pathway Design: How AI is Transforming Synthetic Biology

It is hard to overestimate the potential of biotechnology to address some of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. These challenges include feeding a growing global population, improving healthcare and access to therapies, and mitigating the impacts of climate change.