Ginkgo Bioworks grabs $100 million in financing to buy a whole lot of synthetic DNA
June 08, 2016 at 07:30 AM EDT
Ginko Bioworks, the Boston-based biotech startup making all sorts of scents and flavors from microbugs, has pulled in $100 million in Series C funding to obtain 600 million base pairs of manufactured DNA – or what Ginkgo claims is the “largest amount of synthetic DNA ever purchased.” The startup plans to use the millions of genetic base pairs to test its production metal in… Read More