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Meet Brian Vaughan, Staff Scientist at Primordial Genetics
Primordial Genetics, , Primordial Thoughts, biotechnology, Brian Vaughan, microbes, Primordial Genetics, 0What is your role at Primordial Genetics, and how long have you been on the team? I have recently...
Meet Dan Olson, Ph.D. at Primordial Genetics
Primordial Genetics, , Primordial Thoughts, biotechnology, Dan Olson, microbes, Primordial Genetics, 0What is your role at Primordial Genetics, and how long have you been on the team? I am a...
Meet Karen Xu, Ph.D. at Primordial Genetics
Primordial Genetics, , Primordial Thoughts, biotechnology, Karen Xu, microbes, Primordial Genetics, 0What is your role at Primordial Genetics, and how long have you been on the team? I see my...
Meet Sabrina Baffert at Primordial Genetics
Primordial Genetics, , Primordial Thoughts, biotechnology, microbes, Primordial Genetics, Sabrina Baffert, 0What is your role at Primordial Genetics, and how long have you been on the team? My title is...
The End of Plastic Waste: How synthetic biology is taking on the garbage patch
Primordial Genetics, , Primordial Thoughts, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, plastic waste, Primordial Genetics, Synthetic Biology, 0The appearance of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and similar accumulations of plastics and other debris in the world’s...
Biologically Produced L-Methionine: Fermentation is the Future of Feed
Primordial Genetics, , Primordial Thoughts, fermentation, Helge Zieler, L-Methionine, Metabolic Engineering, Methionine, microbes, microbial improvement, Molecular Biology, Primordial Genetics, synbio, Synthetic Biology, 0Why do we need to eat protein, and what goes into its production? Proteins are the basic constituents of...
What is Synthetic Biology?
Primordial Genetics, , Primordial Thoughts, Metabolic Engineering, Molecular Biology, Primordial Genetics, Synthetic Biology, Whole-genome cell engineering, Wild Yeast, 0Synthetic biology (often abbreviated as synbio) is a term that is more and more in vogue and used widely...
Future-Thinking, Innovative, Inspirational: Plug and Play Startup Graduate
Primordial Genetics, , Press, Primordial Thoughts, 0Primordial Genetics has graduated from the Plug and Play Spring 2019 accelerator program as a top startup company selected by...
Primordial Genetics is proud to announce the issuance of two new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark...
Primordial Genetics Awarded National Institutes of Health “America’s Seed Fund” Grant
Sabrina Baffert, , Primordial Thoughts, 0Company aims to discover and develop single-subunit RNA polymerases for efficient RNA manufacturing The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small...
Interview with Primordial Genetics: Founder & President, Helge Zieler, PhD
Primordial Genetics, , Management, Platform, Primordial Thoughts, 0Interview with Primordial Genetics: Founder & President, Helge Zieler, PhD Our founder and president Helge Zieler, PhD, began Primordial...
Any Organism, Any Trait: Microbial Improvement By Harnessing the Vastness of the Evolutionary Genetic Space
Primordial Genetics, , Primordial Thoughts, Helge Zieler, microbes, microbial improvement, Primordial Genetics, Synthetic Biology, 0Primordial Genetics presented a poster entitled “Any Organism, Any Trait: Microbial Improvement By Harnessing the Vastness of the Evolutionary Genetic...
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Primordial Genetics Awarded $1.15M Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for Revolutionary Ways to Manufacture Therapeutics and Vaccines
Primordial Genetics, , News, biotechnology, mRNA, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH, Primordial Genetics, RNA, Synthetic Biology, 0The National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health has awarded a Pharmacology, Physiology, and...
Primordial Genetics and Denovium Collaborate to Impact the Diagnosis, Prevention & Treatment of Human Diseases
Primordial Genetics, , News, artificial intelligence, Denovium Inc., DNA synthesis, Helge Zieler, National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, Primordia Genetics, Synthetic Biology, Toby Richardson, 0The Research is Supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health Primordial Genetics,...
James “Jamie” Levine has joined Primordial Genetics’ Board of Directors, bringing deep executive experience in industrial biotechnology and finance...
On this episode of the J&J Innovation Podcast, we sit down with Helge Zieler, founder and President of Primordial Genetics, about...
Go Beyond Investing (https://go-beyond.biz/) is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small...
Primordial Genetics receives NIH Grant: Synthetic biology E. coli strain development for expression of functional human GPCRs with roles in human disease
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0The principal aim of this project is to apply a novel synthetic biology approach to develop protein expression strains...
Primordial Genetics and Bayer announce research collaboration to enhance crop performance
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0Primordial Genetics and Bayer CropScience LP announced today the establishment of a research collaboration to evaluate Primordial Genetics’ proprietary...
Sabrina German of Primordial Genetics Inc. won an award for best poster at Synbiobeta, San Francisco, CA Oct 5....
Primordial Genetics signs R&D Agreement for pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0Following the launch of an R&D project for improvement of an enzyme used for manufacturing high-value pharmaceuticals in November...
Primordial Genetics launches FOMO-21 high-solubility E. coli. protein expression strain.
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0Primordial Genetics has launched FOMO-21, its first bacterial protein expression product enabling soluble expression of insoluble proteins in E. coli....
Primordial Genetics moves into new facility at 3550 General Atomics Court.
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0To enable expansion of its staff and operations, and accommodate recent and anticipated R&D collaborations and industrial partnerships, Primordial...
Primordial Genetics launches enzyme improvement project for pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0This week, Primordial Genetics signed a Letter of Intent with a San Diego-based pharmaceutical company (‘Company A’), for a...
Primordial Genetics receives Notice of Allowance from USPTO covering Function Generator combinatorial genetics technology.
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0Primordial Genetics is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of...
Richard Schneeberger PhD, MBA joins Primordial Genetics as business consultant
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0Richard Schneeberger, PhD, MBA has joined Primordial Genetics Inc as acting Director of Business Development. Richard Schneeberger, PhD, MBA...
Alan Greener joins Primordial Genetics as Vice President, Research and Development
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0Alan Greener, PhD, has joined Primordial Genetics Inc. as Vice President of R&D. Alan has extensive experience developing advanced...
Primordial Genetics closes new financing round and adds private equity investors
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0Primordial Genetics today announced the first closing of its Series A-2 financing round, including a group of 5 private...
Egle B. Thomas PhD, MBA has joined Primordial Genetics Inc as a strategic business consultant. Egle has over 13...
Primordial Genetics Inc has launched its laboratory operations at the JLABS biotechnology incubator on July 19, 2013. The company...
Primordial Genetics Inc. awarded a National Science Foundation Phase I STTR grant
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0Primordial Genetics Inc has been awarded a Phase I STTR grant in collaboration with Animesh Ray’s laboratory at the Keck...
Primordial Genetics Inc. invited to join the JLABS biotechnology incubator (formerly Janssen Labs) in San Diego
Sabrina Baffert, , News, 0Primordial Genetics Inc has been invited to join the JLABS biotechnology incubator in La Jolla CA (formerly known as...