IndieBio EU: Accelerating Biology

IndieBio is the world's first and only Synbio accelerator programme, which has been accelerating bright young biotech startups since 2014 in Cork, Ireland and now also in San Francisco, USA. Follow our work year-round at http://eu.indiebio.co, @indbio on Twitter, or here on Tumblr!

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Dr. Bill Hamilton, CEO of Evolva UK talks about their work on producing specialist brewed biomolecules and food flavorings reducing the environmental impact caused by traditional production!

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Yensi Flores , CMO and Co-founder of GlowDx talked at #synbiofuture using DNA logic to enable rapid, affordable diagnostics with minimal training in developing countries!

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Professor.Tommie McCarthy of the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC talking at #synbiofuture about Synthetic Biology and expanding the range for future change.

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Dr. Aisling De Paor, lecturer at the School of Law and Government at DCU talked at #synbiofuture about Bioethics and its legal framework in relation to synthetic biology.

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Dr. Linda Kahl, Director of the legal program of BioBricks Foundation covering topics at #synbiofuture including their work on open source biotechnology licensing, open material transfer agreements for synthetic biology and biotechnology products!

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Cork’s 2015 Gold Medal iGEM team from UCC informing attendees of the #synbiofuture the importance of taking part in iGEM to promote synthetic biology among young people to create new and exciting concepts!

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Professor. Eriko Takano talking at #synbiofuture about her and her teams work on pioneering synthetic biology to solve global problems such as cell based Artomisinin drug production to combat Malaria!

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Co Founder of Bento-Bio Bethan Wolfenden talking about their work on building affordable tools for biotechnology for kids and budding scientists on the move! Looking forward to seeing this technology in action! Biology for everybody!

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Dr. Darragh Gaffney, R&D Manager for Monaghan Biosciences talking about enzymes and process improvement partnerships for industrial enzymology at #synbiofuture.

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Experienced entrepreneur, philanthropist and SOSV venture partner Bill Liao talking about #IndieBio, not being afraid to take risks to make positive change via entrepreneurship!

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CEO of Hyasynth Kevin Chen at #synbiofuture talking about his companies work on producing lab grown,safe effective cannabinoids for medical applications!

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COO of Ageria Alex Gfrerer talking about their anti aging #youngurt and the cisgenic natural genes used to make their product! No GMO’s no problem!

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Dr. Sally Cudmore, General Manager of the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre talking at #synbiofuture about narrow spectrum antibiotics and fecal transplants to improve human health!

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Professor. Ted Dinan,head of UCC’s Department of Psychiatry talks about his research on Mind/Gut interaction and emergence of #psychobiotics at the #IndieBio EU #synbiofuture conference! #UCC #healthymind #healthybody

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RipRap 3D printing blood vessels networks

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BIG NEWS: This is the first time ever the genetic code has been fundamentally changed. The breakthrough is a huge step forward in synthetic biology and opens up the possibility of turning re-coded bacteria into biofactories, capable of producing potent new forms of protein that could fight disease or generate sustainable materials. Read more: http://bit.ly/19bDzvZ via Yale University

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The Moon Parka - A jacket made of synthetic spider silk

Remember the Japanese biomaterials company Spiber? In 2013, they presented a cocktail dress made of Qmonos (from the Japanese word kumonosu meaning ‘spider web’), their present 11-year-10-design-iterations-and-656-gene-synthesis synthetic version of stronger than steel and more flexible than nylon lightweight spider silk.

Snip from geek.com:

The end result of all that research is a method for producing artificial spider silk through a fermentation process using bioengineered microorganisms to produce the silk proteins. A real spider can only produce so much silk, but an engineered cell that does nothing but spit out silk proteins can be used to scale production up quickly.

Now they presented in collaboration with The North Face a new prototype called The Moon Parka, which is currently touring North Face stores across Japan. It’s intended to show that practical applications of spider silk are possible (cost is now 1/53,000 of what it was in 2008). Spiber aims to deliver the final product next year. Presumably only in Japan. But fingers crossed for a worldwide rollout at reasonable prices.

Watch their promo-launch video below:

[North Face x Spiber] [Spiber] [picture by North Face]