This Boston-based company, started by a team of MIT scientists and launched out of Y Combinator, has developed a technology that uses yeast as a base to make all kinds of substances, including perfumes, cosmetics and sweeteners, from microbugs. Ginkgo Bioworks can use this technology across a whole host of consumer and industrial products, enabling customers to grow rather than manufacture better products.

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