Blog: A day in the life of a scientist: with and without version control
What does engineered biology look like when work is truly traceable, reproducible, and easy to collaborate on? This short, cartoon-style guide brings it to life by contrasting the everyday frustrations scientists face without version control (lost data, unclear lineage, slow onboarding), with a streamlined, connected workflow enabled by CellRepo. Across four familiar moments such as […]
Blog: The SynBio Data Tax – Why engineering biology without version control no longer works
Synthetic biology is no longer a niche research discipline. It is becoming a core industrial capability, and it is scaling at a pace that is exposing deep structural weaknesses in how biological work is tracked, governed, and reused. Today, more than 12,000 organisations worldwide are actively engineering biological systems, spanning pharmaceuticals, chemicals, materials, food, agriculture, […]
White Paper: DNA Barcoding of Biology for Authenticity and Traceability
Engineered organisms move rapidly across labs and collaborators, yet their provenance is easily lost—creating critical gaps in IP protection, biosecurity, and scientific accountability. DNA barcoding addresses this by embedding a unique, sequence‑based identifier directly into an organism, linking it to a secure, verifiable record of its origin, ownership, and authorised use. This enables biological assets […]
White Paper: Lineage Tracking for Synthetic Biology: CellRepo® version control platform for Microbial Research
Synthetic biology is accelerating, but most labs still rely on fragmented, manual systems that cannot track the rapid iteration of strains, plasmids, or protocols. This creates costly errors, lost context, and irreproducible work. The white paper introduces CellRepo as a purpose‑built solution: a biological version control system that captures every change with structured, timestamped, and […]
New Publication in Nature Communications: Engineering Biology applications for environmental solutions
We are proud to share that our latest collaborative research, “Engineering biology applications for environmental solutions: potential and challenges”, has been published in Nature Communications. This forward-looking paper explores how engineering biology can be used to tackle major environmental challenges—from bioremediation and pollution monitoring to waste valorisation and carbon sequestration. A significant highlight of the […]
Enhancing IP Protection in Biotechnology with Barcoded Version-Controlled Cells
Intellectual property (IP) protection and traceability in biotechnology present ongoing challenges, particularly for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and proprietary cell lines. Our latest white paper, developed in collaboration with Potter Clarkson, explores how barcoded version-controlled cells can provide a structured approach to addressing these challenges. Our solutions—CellRepo® and GenoSignature™—offer a way to enhance provenance tracking, […]