Synthetic Biology

The state is building the lab you planned to rent.

On July 22, NSF committed $380 million to AI-programmable cloud labs that include biology; two weeks later Ginkgo Bioworks, which calls its own the world's largest autonomous lab, reported quarterly revenue down 48% to $20 million. The money that did move paid for physical throughput, with Twist Bioscience up 23% to a record $118.4 million, while an August 7 court injunction for WuXi AppTec moved the real BIOSECURE decision to OMB's December 18 list. The lab became public infrastructure in the same quarter its private business model broke.