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In Depth 5 Mar 2018

The Robots are Coming: Is AI the Future of Biotech?

AI, or artificial intelligence, has taken root in biotech. In this article, we explore its newfound niches in the industry. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become ubiquitous in tech startups, fueled largely by the increasing availability and amount of data and cheaper, more powerful computers. Now, if you are a new tech startup, […]

March 5, 2018 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Infographics 21 Jun 2017

Check Out these 42 European SynBio Startups Reimagining the Industry

Synthetic biology, or synbio for short, is rapidly infiltrating multiple fields. From bioplastics to food technology and healthcare, these are the startups in Europe that are expanding the frontiers of what synbio can do to improve our lives in many different ways. In the not-so-distant future, synthetic biology could bring us anything from spider silk […]

June 21, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 6 Jan 2017

‘Packaged’ CRISPR Systems to Standardize novel Biomedical Research

There’s a growing appetite to refine and standardize CRISPR protocols, as its application expands into different areas of genomic research. The Wellcome Trust and Desktop Genomics have recent advances to make it more efficient and controllable. Outside of the high-stakes world of therapeutic CRISPR, which has enjoyed gambling-like investment and whose legal future is unfolding in court, this […]

January 6, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 5 Jul 2016

“CRISPR is highly fragmented, with too many approaches. We bring it all together”

The problem with CRISPR, is that not many people are actually experts in the field, and there are only a select few who worked on it pre-2013. So how did this UK Startup make a big name for itself in field of the ‘Biotech Breakthrough of the Century’? Desktop Genetics is a startup founded in 2012 by three […]

July 5, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 23 Feb 2016

UK Start-Up Gets €380k to Understand Cancer with CRISPR

Desktop Genetics, a small bioinformatics start-up out of London, has won a substantial grant to understand why some cancer cells just won’t quit. To do this, it relies on CRISPR, their expertise with genetic data, and research from Imperial College London. Desktop Genetics has already proven that it can move some money, with a €1.87 […]

February 23, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 11 Dec 2015

Digital CRISPR Cloud Services: An Appealing Product to Big Bioinformatics Investors like Illumina

London’s Desktop Genetics and their remote CRISPR and digital genetics platform has caught the eye of US Illumina – the US Competitor to German Giant QIAGEN in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)… Desktop Genetics (DeskGen) is an online service that researchers can use to design CRISPR gene editing experiments, purchase reagents and find commercial entities to […]

December 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 16 Sep 2015

Desktop Genetics bags €1.87M from top UK business angels to change how you manage your CRIPSR experiments

Gene Editing has been made much easier thanks to CRISPR but managing your genome editing workflow can be a challenge. London-based Desktop Genetics wants to solve this problem and just raised additional funding to accelerate its development. CRISPR is already considered as the biotech revolution of this century. Having an easy tool is one thing, but being […]

September 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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