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Facilities for bridging the gap between academia and industry to accelerate the commercialisation of synthetic biology research and technology.
London, United Kingdom
Joined October 2016
National hub to support synthetic biology extended with £5.5m funding commitment
imperial.ac.uk
SynbiCITE, the UK’s National Centre for the Industrial Translation of Synthetic Biology, has received a £5.5m funding commitment from SynBioVen.
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We have an excellent programme for SynbiTECH2020 https://t.co/8tTnxQusTE The opening Keynote is by Sir David King, former Chief Scientist to the UK Government, on Climate Change and Sustainability https://t.co/1MXh4EEr7p
synbitech.com
IET London: Savoy Place London | 1st-2nd Dec 2026 | Building a multibillion-dollar synthetic biology industry with positive impact.
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A few of our programme highlights for #SynbiTECH2020 include @Sir_David_King on #ClimateChange, @MaryEMaxon on the #bioeconomy, @uksciencechief on the #science underpinning #PublicHealth and Christina Smolke on Fermenting #Medicines. Full programme here:
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The paper on our most recent work is finally here: “A new role for Biofoundries in rapid prototyping, development, and validation of automated clinical diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2.” #COVID19 #Automation #biofoundry
medrxiv.org
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has shown how the rapid rise in demand for patient and community sample testing, required for tracing and containing a highly infectious disease, has quickly overwhelmed...
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Our recent work on repurposing our biofoundry for Sars-Cov-2 testing. A new role for Biofoundries in rapid prototyping, development, and validation of automated clinical diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2
medrxiv.org
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has shown how the rapid rise in demand for patient and community sample testing, required for tracing and containing a highly infectious disease, has quickly overwhelmed...
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SynbiCITE’s @DNAFoundry has engineered a solution to high throughput #COVID19 #antigentesting in just 9 days. Applying a #SynBio approach to engineer synthetic virus-like particles to use in diagnostic workflow development and validation. https://t.co/V1WNoopBQW
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“I am fortunate to be surrounded by an amazing team & it’s astonishing what they have been able to achieve in less than 2 weeks" 🙌 🗣️@PaulFreemont, UK DRI CR&T, on new robotic platform developed to boost #coronavirus testing ➡️ https://t.co/1GgsTtoRjR
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Unfortunately, given current circumstances we have had to make the decision to postpone #SynbiTECH2020 but we are pleased to announce the NEW DATES of 26-27th October 2020! Please visit our website for more info or to book your tickets. https://t.co/LMEtVL4bfz
#synbio
synbitech.com
IET London: Savoy Place London | 1st-2nd Dec 2026 | Building a multibillion-dollar synthetic biology industry with positive impact.
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Brilliant to see the @DNAFoundry @SynbiCITE team making amazing progress in the Covid-19 testing effort 👊
Day 11 Andrew and Marko installed the 2nd platform at Charring Cross Hospital - first 96- validation run done yesterday - the platform at St Marys will be testing untested patient samples on Monday - amazing progress amazing team
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Update on our validation - relocated to St Marys MD lab Monday carried out blind tests on 36 patients samples using our RNA extraction qPCR 1000-sample workflow yesterday - passed with flying colours - amazing team Marko, Michael, Marta and Miles @DNAFoundry @ImperialMed
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A robotic testing platform developed in just 9 days by Prof Paul Freemont & colleagues, UK DRI Care Research & Tech, will increase UK’s capacity to test for #coronavirus Exceptional team involved have been working round the clock to accomplish this 🙌 ➡️ https://t.co/nRms4KrYS8
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Two weeks after we installed our first covid-19 testing platform at St Marys, the first untested patient samples were run today and are now in the NHS patient notes.. absolutely amazing progress by the team @DNAFoundry @UKDRI @imperialcollege - still lots to do
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Day 1 of #python learning on @DataCamp. We may be feeling fine on some days and a bit blah on other days in time like this. But I am positive that we can get through this together. #BlahisthenewBlack #staystrong #COVID_19uk
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Driving over our RNA extraction platform to St Mary’s hospital diagnostics lab as part of a HT end to end workflow for covid19 that we are validating ... platform 1 allows 2K test per say .. we have 3 other platforms in the wings ..Michael Crone and Marko Storch @imperialcollege
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Just installed on one of @SynbiCITE's automated platforms - a qTower Auto to support their work on Coronavirus. Along with the FeliX and Nucleic Acid purification kits the qTower is another Analytik Jena solution for the Coronavirus workflow
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Spider silk, synthetic milk, flavours, fragrances, plastics, novel therapeutics, drought tolerant crops. Just a few ways #Synbio can change the world on The Bottom Line: https://t.co/E7vUahEWM9 For more join us at #SynbiTECH2020
https://t.co/ev6ir3M5us
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Fostering a Synthetic Biology standards agenda through the Centre for Engineering Biology, Metrology and Standards https://t.co/VVlzdGyIBz via @SynbiCITE
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You can still save £150 with our EARLY BIRD OFFER for #SynbiTECH2020 until 31st March! Join us for Europe's leading international #syntheticbiology conference and help us build a #sustainable future using #Synbio
https://t.co/8T7aTWcsYm
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Join us for the 1-day @SiLAStandard Hackathon: @Opentrons_ OT2 liquid handler meets @automata_tech EVA robotic arm on April 3rd at the London Biofoundry! https://t.co/N7UbLXlLrN
eventbrite.co.uk
Hackathon integrating workflows for Opentrons liquid handling robots and Automata robotic arms in the open source SiLA framework.
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A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. https://t.co/e8YXkKqikw
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