Bio-Fabrication
Biology is becoming an engineering discipline. Design tissues in software, print them in the lab, test drugs without animals.
CAD for Life
Architects use AutoCAD to design buildings. Mechanical engineers use SolidWorks. Biologists are gaining the same capabilities - designing genetic circuits, tissue structures, and even organisms in software, then fabricating them in automated labs.
Applications
Printing scaffolds that cells colonize to form functional tissue. Skin, cartilage, and bone grafts entering clinical use.
Long-term goal of printing full organs for transplant. Current focus on simpler structures like bladders and blood vessels.
Printed tissue models replace animal testing. Organoids mimic human response more accurately than mice.
Cultured meat printed from animal cells without slaughter. Companies like Upside Foods have FDA approval.
Bio-inspired materials with properties impossible to achieve synthetically. Spider silk, nacre analogs, self-healing materials.
Cloud Labs
No $5M lab? No problem. Design experiments in software and let robots execute them.
Remote-controlled biology lab. Design experiments in software, robots execute them.
Learn MoreAutomated life science research platform for drug discovery.
Learn MoreRobotic cloud laboratory for synthetic biology (now part of Strateos).
Learn MoreBio-Design Platforms
Software tools for designing biological systems.
Cloud platform for designing DNA sequences, managing experiments, and collaborating on research.
Learn MoreOrganism design platform - engineering cells to produce chemicals, materials, and medicines.
Learn MoreDNA synthesis and design tools. Order custom genes delivered to your lab.
Learn MoreMilestones
First synthetic organism created (Synthia - J. Craig Venter Institute)
First 3D-printed human ear cartilage scaffold
Organovo delivers first bioprinted liver tissue for drug testing
Israeli team prints first vascularized human heart (miniature)
3D bioprinted corneas enter human clinical trials
FDA approves lab-grown meat for commercial sale (Upside Foods)
Engineering Life
Biology is the next frontier of engineering. We're tracking the tools that make it accessible.