Microbial Biofoundry Gears Up For New Product Development

Ginkgo Bioworks, a bioengineering company out of Boston, Massachusetts, has just signed a deal with the Japanese company Ajinomoto. Ajinomoto, a producer of food ingredients such as seasonings, sauces, and pharmaceuticals, with out-source the ingredient synthesizing to Ginkgo's new biofoundry. The biofoundry will act mostly like a contract research organization, where larger companies will use ["]