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November 30, 2021XpresSpa Group and Ginkgo Bioworks Collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 Biosurveillance Program Expands to Include Detection of the New Omicron Variant
XpresSpa Group
November 24, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Participation in Upcoming Conferences
Ginkgo
November 17, 2021mRNA Victoria and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Grow the Bioeconomy & International Biosecurity Capabilities
Ginkgo
November 15, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Reports Third Quarter 2021 Results
Ginkgo
November 11, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Launches Cell Development Kit Service for Standardized, Low-Cost Entry to its Cell Programming Platform
Ginkgo
November 9, 2021Synlogic and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Investigational Synthetic Biotic Medicine for the Treatment of Homocystinuria
Synlogic

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November 9, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Date of Third Quarter 2021 Results Presentation
Ginkgo
October 28, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Previews Today’s Annual Ferment Conference
Ferment
October 27, 2021Arcaea, a Company Launched on the Ginkgo Bioworks Platform, Announces $78M Series A To Build a New Foundation For the Beauty Industry through Expressive Biology
Arcaea
October 26, 2021Selecta Biosciences and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Advance Treatments for Orphan and Rare Diseases
Selecta
October 20, 2021Quest Diagnostics to Provide K-12 School COVID-19 Testing in Collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks to Support Safer Classroom Learning in Texas for New Statewide School Testing Program
Quest
September 30, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Participation in Upcoming Conferences
Ginkgo
September 24, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Expands Commitment at Marcus Partners Life Science Campus at Parcels O & P in Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park
Marcus Partners
September 17, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly on the business of programmable DNA
CNBC Squawk on the Street
September 17, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks to Begin Trading Today as NYSE: DNA with Over $1.6 Billion in Proceeds
$DNA
September 14, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks to Go Public with Over $1.6 Billion in Proceeds
Soaring Eagle
September 14, 2021Africa CDC and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Collaboration to Strengthen Laboratory Network Capacity Across African Union Member States
Africa CDC
September 10, 2021Concentric by Ginkgo Stands Ready to Continue Fighting Pandemic, Providing Biosecurity and COVID Testing Nationwide to Schools, Workplaces, and Other Congregate Settings
Concentric
September 10, 2021New Agenus Subsidiary, SaponiQx, Builds Innovative Adjuvant Platform and Forms Collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks
SaponiQx
September 9, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks’ Ferment Consortium Launches Verb Biotics, a Probiotics Innovation Company to Address Market Demands for Effective Probiotics
Ginkgo Bioworks
September 9, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks’ Ferment Consortium Launches Ayana Bio to Produce Plant and Fungal Bioactives for Herbal Medicines and Nutraceuticals
Ginkgo Bioworks
September 7, 2021Tantu and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Engineer a Living Biotherapeutic for Gastrointestinal Healing
Tantu
September 3, 2021Cambium Biomaterials Announces Partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks to Accelerate Industrial Adoption of High-Performance Biomaterials
Cambium
August 30, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks and Givaudan Enter Multi-Program Collaboration to Produce a Series of Ingredients
Ginkgo Bioworks
August 23, 2021Cronos Group and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Achievement of Equity Milestone in Partnership to Produce Cultured Cannabinoids
Cronos Group
August 19, 2021Using synthetic biology platforms to clean up indigo dye-making
Axios
August 19, 2021Huue and Ginkgo Bioworks Partner to Accelerate Production of Sustainable Dyes
Huue
August 18, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Provides First Half 2021 Update
Ginkgo Bioworks
August 13, 2021Soaring Eagle Announces Extraordinary General Meeting Date for Proposed Business Combination with Ginkgo
Businesswire
August 13, 2021XpresSpa Group™ Receives Approval for a $2 Million Program with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for Biosurveillance Tracking in Collaboration with Concentric by Ginkgo at Three Major U.S. Airports
GlobeNewswire
August 12, 2021Out to revamp plant-based drug manufacturing, Antheia locks in partnership with synthetic biology giant Ginkgo
Endpoints
August 12, 2021Antheia and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Accelerate Production of Essential Medicines using Synthetic Biology
Antheia
August 11, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks and Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. Announce Effectiveness of Form S-4 Registration Statement
Ginkgo Bioworks
August 10, 2021Ginkgo and Aldevron tout mRNA manufacturing ‘breakthrough’—and the perks could stretch well beyond COVID-19, exec says
Fierce Pharma
August 10, 2021Aldevron’s Collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks Yields Manufacturing Breakthrough for Vaccinia Capping Enzyme Used for Manufacturing of mRNA Vaccines
Aldevron
August 9, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Date of First Half 2021 Results Presentation
Ginkgo Bioworks
August 7, 2021Bolt Threads and Ginkgo Bioworks collaborate on cosmetics
C&EN
August 5, 2021Bolt Threads to Leverage Ginkgo Bioworks’ Platform for Commercial Strain Optimization of b-silk™ Protein
Bolt Threads
August 3, 2021Vertex CEO Reshma Kewalramani, MD to join Ginkgo Bioworks Board of Directors
Ginkgo Bioworks
July 29, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Participation in Upcoming Conferences
Ginkgo Bioworks
July 8, 2021What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey
Fortune
July 3, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly
This Week In Startups
June 22, 2021Taking DNA to the Street
Boston Globe
June 10, 2021New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Brings Pooled Testing to K-12 Classrooms in Partnership with Concentric by Ginkgo
Ginkgo Bioworks
June 7, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Announces R&D Collaboration with Sumitomo Chemical to Develop More Sustainable Bio-Based Chemicals for Multiple Industries
Sumitomo
June 4, 2021Cronos Group and Ginkgo Bioworks Amend Agreement to Accelerate Commercialization of Cultured Cannabinoids and Cronos Group Begins Commercial Production of CBG
Cronos
June 3, 2021The promise and peril of engineering biology, w/Ginkgo Bioworks Reshma Shetty
Masters of Scale Podcast
May 25, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Investor Day and Participation in Upcoming Investor Conferences
Ginkgo Bioworks
May 21, 2021Biogen and Ginkgo Bioworks Partner to Redefine AAV-Based Vector Manufacturing
Biospace
May 21, 2021Biogen and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Collaboration and License Agreement to Develop Novel Gene Therapy Manufacturing Platform
Biogen
May 17, 2021Ginkgo tees up its next acquisition just days after inking $2.5B SPAC deal
Fierce Biotech
May 17, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Agreement to Acquire Fungal Platform Technology Company Dutch DNA
Ginkgo Bioworks
May 11, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation
Endpoints
May 11, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks to Become a Public Company and Expand its Leading Platform for Cell Programming
Ginkgo Bioworks
April 22, 2021Dylan George joins Ginkgo Bioworks to grow the company’s global biosecurity efforts
Ginkgo Bioworks
April 3, 2021Bioengineering stronger crops that can survive extreme weather
Axios
April 2, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks aims to keep growing with new building in the Seaport
Boston Globe
April 1, 2021Corteva Agriscience Collaborates with Ginkgo Bioworks to Bolster Crop Protection
Ginkgo Bioworks
March 26, 2021Unlocking the COVID code
The New York Times
March 25, 2021From antipasti to antivirals: Ginkgo’s quiet quest to remake how mRNA vaccines are made
Endpoints
March 20, 2021Schools already testing students and staff for coronavirus say it’s crucial to in-person class: ‘It’s worth it’
USA Today
March 10, 20211 big thing: Schools bet on pool testing to keep classrooms safe
Axios
March 9, 2021The Ten Most Innovative Joint Ventures 2021
Fast Company
March 4, 2021Massachusetts Actually Might Have a Way to Keep Schools Open
The Atlantic
February 23, 2021Massachusetts software engineer launches Twitter account to find coronavirus vaccine slots
Boston Herald
February 4, 2021State set to begin pool testing to get kids back in the classroom
Fox 25 Boston
February 4, 2021COVID-19 pool testing underway at Massachusetts schools
WCVB
February 2, 2021Ginkgo Bioworks Selected to Provide Pooled COVID-19 Testing for Massachusetts K-12 Schools
Pooled Testing for K12
January 22, 2021Strength in numbers? The future of COVID-19 testing may depend on it
Boston Globe
December 23, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks Launches COVID-19 Pooled Classroom Testing Pilot for K-12 Schools
Ginkgo Bioworks
December 21, 2020Biotech companies unite to engineer a better mosquito repellent
Axios
December 17, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks, Azitra, Florida International University, and Latham BioPharm Group Awarded $15M by DARPA to Develop Skin Microbiome-based Mosquito Repellent
Revector
December 16, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks Acquires Biotechnology Startup Novogy’s Microbial Engineering Platform
Novogy
December 10, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks and Octant Partner to Expand COVID-19 Testing Capacity using Next-Generation Sequencing Technology
Octant
December 10, 2020Why your kids’ schools could stay open this winter if we ramped up COVID-19 testing
USA Today
December 7, 2020Inside Ginkgo Bioworks’ efforts to dramatically scale Covid-19 testing
Boston Business Journal
December 1, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on $1.1 billion loan for coronavirus efforts
CNBC
November 25, 2020U.S loans $1.1 billion to Ginkgo Bioworks for pandemic effort
Reuters
November 25, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks To Expand Biosecurity and Pandemic Response Platform with $1.1B Federal Loan
DFC
November 20, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks Funds Expansion of Rapid Antigen Test Manufacturing with Access Bio in New Jersey
AccessBio
November 3, 2020‘The Biological Event Of Our Lives’: Boston Biotech Unicorn Dives Into Mass Coronavirus Testing
WBUR
October 29, 2020Allonnia launches to destroy pollution with microbes
C&EN
October 26, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks Secures Access to SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Test With Goal of Acquiring and Distributing Up To 50 Million Tests
Rapid Antigen Tests
October 22, 2020Allonnia Launches from Ginkgo Bioworks’ Ferment Consortium with $40M Series A to Address Critical Problems in Waste Remediation with Synthetic Biology, Appoints Nicole Richards as CEO
Allonnia
October 22, 2020Bill Gates backed venture aims to eliminate forever chemicals
Bloomberg
October 22, 2020Eyeing big testing expansion, Ginkgo rolls out 50M rapid antigen diagnostics
Endpoints
September 10, 2020Totient Partners with Ginkgo Bioworks to Apply Unique Discovery Platform to COVID-19 Antibody Efforts
Totient
September 10, 2020Ginkgo teams with unknown upstart in hunt for Covid-19 antibody
Endpoints
August 14, 2020The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
The Atlantic
July 31, 2020This clever COVID-19 testing technique could help send kids back to school safely
Fast Company
July 31, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks, Mammoth Biosciences among winners of NIH’s ‘Shark Tank’ for Covid-19 tests
STAT
July 31, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks Awarded $40MM NIH RADx-ATP Contract to Expand High Throughput SARS-CoV-2 Testing
NIH RADx
July 28, 2020Boston startups scramble to help employers with on-site COVID-19 testing
Boston Globe
June 25, 2020If Biology Can Build It, They Will Come: Ginkgo Bioworks Is Laying The Foundation For The $4 Trillion Bioeconomy
Forbes
June 19, 2020Ginkgo BioWorks CEO on New Covid-19 Testing Initiative
Bloomberg
June 18, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks Launches Concentric by Ginkgo to Help Enable Large-Scale COVID-19 Testing
Concentric
June 18, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: ‘If we try, we can win’
CNBC
May 28, 2020Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities
Boston Globe
May 28, 2020Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $70 Million to Tackle Covid-19 Testing
Bloomberg
May 28, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks to Build Infrastructure for Rapid Epidemic Response with $70MM Investment
Press Release
May 27, 2020Why Finding The Right Investors Is Critical For Billion-Dollar Success
Forbes
April 30, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus
Wall Street Journal
April 28, 2020Opinion: The US already has the technology to test millions of people a day
MIT Technology Review
April 15, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response
Moderna
January 21, 2020Ginkgo Bioworks’ Reshma Shetty On Co-Founding Synthetic Biology’s First Unicorn
Forbes
December 4, 2019The Bloomberg 50
Bloomberg Businessweek
November 8, 2019Bloomberg Businessweek Debrief: A Conversation with Jason Kelly
Bloomberg Businessweek
November 6, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Wants Biology to Manufacture Physical Goods
Bloomberg Businessweek
November 1, 2019Three Industry-Changing Founders on Building Your Own Empire
Marie Claire
October 10, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks to Launch Spinout Companies Through New Fund
The Wall Street Journal
October 9, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts
Reuters
October 4, 2019As Silicon Valley faces a tech reckoning, biologists point to the next big opportunity
CNBC
September 19, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks’ dev shop for genetic programming is now worth $4 billion
TechCrunch
September 19, 2019Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding
Bloomberg
September 19, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks Raises $290 Million in Series E Financing to Grow its Platform for Cell Programming
Series E Fundraise
September 16, 2019Silicon Valley’s top startup hub just teamed up with a $1.4 billion company to help startups find new ways of creating drugs, food, and clothing with biology
Business Insider
July 25, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder Honored with Rosalind Franklin Award
Genetic Engineering News
July 24, 2019The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing
Forbes
June 13, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks and Synlogic to collaborate on ‘living medicine’
CNBC
June 12, 2019Synlogic and Ginkgo Bioworks Establish Transformational Platform Collaboration for the Accelerated Development of Novel Synthetic Biotic™ Medicines
Synlogic
May 30, 2019BIO Announces 2019 Rosalind Franklin Award Winner: Reshma Shetty, Ginkgo Bioworks
BIO
May 16, 2019Why Ginkgo Bioworks is number 19 on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list
CNBC
May 15, 2019Microbe-Hacker Ginkgo Bioworks Pushes Further Into Medicine With Acquisition Of Genome Mining Platform And Antibiotics Discovery Deal With Roche
Forbes
May 15, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks Acquires Warp Drive Bio’s Genome Mining Platform for Discovery and Development of Novel Classes of Antibiotics
Warp Drive
April 16, 2019You Can Now Smell a Flower That Went Extinct a Century Ago
Popular Mechanics
April 16, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks Appoints Former Bayer CEO Marijn Dekkers as Chairman of its Board of Directors
Press release
April 16, 2019Unilever Chairman Joins Board of Bioengineering Unicorn Ginkgo
Bloomberg
April 4, 2019The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything
The Economist
February 26, 2019This food tech startup just raised $90 million to make it easier to invent new plant-based meats
Fast Company
February 26, 2019With $90 million in funding, the Ginkgo spinoff Motif joins the fight for the future of food
TechCrunch
February 26, 2019Fund Backed by Bezos, Gates and Ma Invests in Meat Alternatives
Bloomberg
February 26, 2019Ginkgo Bioworks Launches Motif Ingredients with $90 Million Series A Financing
Motif
February 20, 2019Scent of Extinct Maui Mountain Hibiscus Revived by Science
Maui Now
February 1, 2019Fragrant Genes of Extinct Flowers Have Been Brought Back to Life
Scientific American
December 21, 2018This $1 billion start-up backed by Bill Gates prints new DNA — and everyone from the DOD to Bayer is on board
CNBC
November 8, 2018Firms invest in human milk oligosaccharides
C&EN
November 8, 2018Ginkgo Bioworks and Glycosyn LLC Announce $14MM Deal to Scale Production of Human Milk Oligosaccharides
Glycosyn
October 24, 2018Ginkgo Bioworks Opens Bioworks4, Adds New Tools for the Rapid Genetic Engineering of Mammalian Cells
Bioworks4
October 24, 2018Ginkgo Bioworks is Turning Human Cells Into On-Demand Factories
WIRED
October 22, 2018Cannabis grown from yeast: does the future of pot lie in a lab?
The Guardian
September 4, 2018Cronos Partners With Ginkgo to Develop Lab-Grown Cannabis
Bloomberg
July 19, 2018Ginkgo Bioworks Appoints Claire Laporte as New Head of Intellectual Property
New Head of IP
June 27, 2018The DNA Cops Who Make Sure the World’s Deadliest Viruses Aren’t Rebuilt
Bloomberg
June 27, 2018Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Biosecurity Initiative, Using Deep Learning to Reduce the Global Threat of Biological Weapons and Infectious Disease
Defense Work
June 14, 2018Garments of interdependence: Natsai Audrey Chieza on fashion, design, and synthetic biology
SynBioBeta
June 14, 2018Ginkgo Bioworks Marks 10-Year Anniversary with iGEM Partnership
iGEM
June 7, 2018Is biological design the future of everything?
Cosmetics Design
May 31, 2018Bioengineers Aim to Break Big Ag’s Addiction to Fertilizers
IEEE Spectrum
May 22, 2018Why Bill Gates is betting on a start-up that prints synthetic DNA
CNBC
April 12, 2018A controversial technology could save us from starvation — if we let it
Business Insider
April 12, 2018Ginkgo Bioworks and Transcriptic selected by DARPA to leverage robotic cloud lab and foundry automation to accelerate biological design with $9.5 M award
SD2
March 20, 2018Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks Unveil Joint Venture, Joyn Bio, and Establish Operations in Boston and West Sacramento
Joyn
February 20, 2018The Billion-Dollar Startups Revolutionizing Healthcare You Should Be Watching in 2018
Business Insider
February 20, 2018The World’s Most Innovative Companies 2018
Fast Company
February 20, 2018Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs?
The Atlantic
Watch Now February 20, 2018Bayer Betting Plants Can Fertilize ThemselvesBloomberg
February 20, 2018Ginkgo Bioworks secures $275 million in Series D, valuing the company at over $1 billion
TechCrunch
February 20, 2018Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Pour Into Hacking Microbes
Forbes
December 14, 2017Ginkgo Bioworks Launches New Organism Foundry, Supported by $275 Million in Series D Funding
Bioworks 3 Series D
December 8, 2017Synlogic and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Collaboration as First Step Toward Building an Unprecedented Discovery Engine for Novel Living Medicines in Neurological and Liver Disorders
Synlogic
October 24, 2017Bayer And Ginkgo Bioworks, A Startup, Aim To Make Crops Produce Their Own Nitrogen Fertilizer
Forbes
October 24, 2017This Startup Is Engineering Crops That Can Fertilize Themselves
Fast Company
October 3, 2017Ginkgo Bioworks Taps Transcriptic’s Robotics Software to Further Accelerate Automation in Organism Design
Transcriptic
September 15, 2017Bayer joins in $100 million investment bet on ag-biotech startup
Reuters
September 15, 2017With designer bacteria, crops could one day fertilize themselves
WIRED
September 14, 2017Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks join forces for sustainable agriculture, forming new company with USD 100 million Series A
Bayer JV
August 28, 2017The big business of enzymes
Axios
August 28, 2017New natural selection: How scientists are altering DNA to genetically engineer new forms of life
Newsweek
August 28, 2017In this South Boston lab, scientists work alongside robots
The Boston Globe
August 28, 2017Fragrance ingredients made via fermentation have arrived on a commercial scale
Cosmetics Design USA
July 27, 2017Ginkgo Bioworks and Kerry Announce New Technology Partnership
Kerry
Watch Now
May 18, 2017Ginkgo Bioworks Disrupting DNACNBC
Watch Now March 15, 2017How DNA Could One Day Rebuild Cell PhonesBloomberg
January 20, 2017Boston-based Ginkgo snaps up George Church-founded DNA maker
Boston Business Journal
January 20, 2017Ginkgo Bioworks Acquires Leading Synthetic DNA Provider Gen9
Gen9
January 13, 2017Tom Knight’s Ginkgo Bioworks Seeks To Reinvent Moore’s Law Through Biochemistry
Forbes
January 4, 2017The Quest To Bring Biodesign To The Masses
Fast Company
October 10, 2016Inside South Boston’s new organism factory
Crain's Boston
Watch Now October 7, 2016Cutting Edge: Boston start-up customizes cells to make natural flavors, fragrancesWCVB Channel 5 Boston
October 7, 2016Cutting Edge: Boston start-up customizes cells to make natural flavors, fragrances
WCVB
October 3, 2016Ginkgo signs trio of microbe deals
c&en
September 29, 2016Ginkgo Builds Out Robot Labs as Microbe Design Business Grows
exome
September 29, 2016Ginkgo Bioworks Unveils Next Generation Organism Foundry to Bring Biotech into New Markets
Bioworks2
September 19, 2016CRISPR Could Usher In a New Era of Delicious GMO Foods
The Atlantic
September 14, 2016A biotech brew for the scientifically thirsty
The Boston Globe
August 15, 2016Why the Pentagon is paying nearly $2 million for a custom-designed bacteria
CNBC
August 4, 2016How Scientists Plan to Grow Cities Out of Living Organisms
Gizmodo
July 23, 2016Field of genes: Cultivating biopharma, bio-ag links
The Boston Globe
July 11, 2016Commercialization of bio-based products the focus for Ginkgo Bioworks and Amyris partnership
Bio-Based World News
Watch Now
June 8, 2016Ginkgo lands at 7 on CNBC’s disruptor listCNBC
June 8, 2016Boston Startup Raises $100 Million To Use Synthetic Biology To Design Microbes For Industry
Forbes
June 8, 2016Ginkgo Bioworks Secures $100 Million Series C Investment
Series C financing
June 7, 2016Meet the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 Companies
CNBC
May 16, 2016I Run a G.M.O. Company — and I Support G.M.O. Labeling
The New York Times
April 7, 201612 Women Leading the Life Sciences Movement in Silicon Valley
TechCrunch
Watch Now January 7, 2016The Science of SensesWGBH
November 18, 2015Move Over, Jony Ive—Biologists Are the Next Rock Star Designers
Wired
November 7, 2015Y Combinator’s Sam Altman Is Bullish on Biotech Startups
Wired
November 4, 2015Synthetic biology lures Silicon Valley investors
Nature
November 4, 2015Twist Bioscience Inks Deal To Sell 100 Million Base Pairs of Synthetic DNA
Fast Company
November 3, 2015Are microbes about to remake manufacturing? This synthetic biologist thinks so
Grist
November 3, 2015Ginkgo Bioworks and Robertet to develop new fragrance ingredients
Cosmetics Design
October 27, 2015We sampled fragrances made from microbes and we’re convinced they’re the future of the industry
Business Insider
August 26, 2015Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Partners With Ginkgo Bioworks in Organism Design
Ajinomoto
July 23, 2015This company is engineering the next sweetener from yeast
Fortune
July 23, 2015Ginkgo Bioworks Takes On Zymergen With $45 Million In Series B Funding
TechCrunch
July 23, 2015Ginkgo Bioworks Secures $45 Million from Viking Global, OS Fund, Y Combinator and Felicis Ventures
Series B
May 1, 2015Trailblazing Women: Reshma Shetty, Co-founder of Gingko Bioworks
The Huffington Post
March 26, 2015Why organism engineering could be a foodie’s dream come true
The Washington Post
March 22, 2015Manufacturing’s Cutting edge—Custom Organisms
The Boston Globe
March 18, 2015This Startup Is Designing Yeast To Make Brand-New Scents, Flavors
BuzzFeed
March 18, 2015Ginkgo Bioworks Raises $9M to ‘Engineer’ Food Flavors, Fragrances
The Wall Street Journal
March 18, 2015Ginkgo Bioworks Raises $9 Million in Funding from Felicis Ventures, OS Fund and Data Collective
Series A
March 5, 2015A Perfume That Smells Like Roses—But Is Actually Made from Yeast
Gizmodo
December 18, 2014The Quest To Reproduce The Scent Of A Rose, With Designer Microbes
Fast Co.Exist
July 16, 2014Why The First YC-Backed Biotech Company May Just Be The Future Of Pharma
TechCrunch

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