Synthetic biology companies engineer biological systems to create new products, processes and capabilities across healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing and environmental applications. The field combines biology, engineering and computational design to reprogram living systems.
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Browse 93 UK synthetic biology companies below.
Cyanobacterial synthetic biology platform producing sustainable specialty chemicals
Deep Blue Biotech is a biotechnology company using genetically engineered cyanobacteria to produce high-value specialty chemicals as sustainable alternatives to fossil-derived…
Gene therapies targeting cancer stem cells in solid tumours
Cellinta is a pre-clinical biotechnology company developing highly selective gene therapies for solid tumour cancers. Its platform identifies transcriptional regulatory circuits…
Cell-based platform for next-generation mRNA medicines
Sensible Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company developing a cell-based platform for the design, optimisation, and manufacturing of high-quality mRNA. Using engineered living…
End-to-end viral vector design, production and gene delivery
VectorBuilder is a global provider of gene delivery solutions offering an integrated suite of research products, custom services, and clinical-grade manufacturing. The company's…
Algal biotechnology company developing Chlorella-based food ingredients
Algenuity Limited is an algal biotechnology company that develops and supplies Chlorella-based ingredients for food and beverage manufacturers. Using proprietary strain…
AI-driven platform engineering better crop varieties
Wild Bioscience is an agricultural biotechnology company developing next-generation crop varieties using a platform that combines evolutionary biology with machine learning. By…
Engineered live biotherapeutics for oral drug delivery
Chain Biotechnology is a microbiome therapeutics company developing oral live biotherapeutic products using its proprietary platform. The technology engineers a probiotic…
Gene-edited crop traits for yield under climate stress
ALORA is an agricultural biotechnology company developing gene-edited crop traits that redirect plant energy from stress defence to yield. Using multiplex gene editing, the…
Organelle engineering platform developing novel crop traits for agriculture
Cytotrait is a biotechnology company developing novel traits for food and agricultural crops. Its MOSS platform introduces genes and gene edits into plant organelles, including…
Programmable iPSC cell therapies for cancer and autoimmunity
Xap Therapeutics is a Cambridge-based biotechnology company developing a synthetic biology platform for next-generation cell therapeutics. The company applies CRISPR technology to…
Microbial CRO for natural product discovery and fermentation scale-up
Isomerase is a company providing contract research and development services centred on microbial synthetic biology, with expertise spanning natural product discovery, enzyme…
Synthetic biology additives for smart, selectively degradable plastics
E.V.A Biosystems is an early-stage industrial biotech developing synthetic biological additives that can be incorporated into conventional plastics during manufacture. The…