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.
Biotech-manufactured botanical extracts and bioactive ingredients for industry
YOHOLIFE is a London-based biotechnology company producing botanical extracts and bioactive ingredients through plant cell culture and synthetic biology techniques. The company…
Cell-free enzymatic DNA manufacturing for genetic medicines
Touchlight is a contract development and manufacturing organisation producing synthetic DNA for genetic medicine applications using a cell-free enzymatic process. Its linear,…
Carbon nanodot delivery platform for RNA-based crop protection
CDotBio Limited is a biotech developing carbon nanodot technology to improve the delivery and stability of RNA-based biopesticides and other crop inputs. The platform uses…
Precision fermentation platform producing sustainable palm oil alternatives
Sun Bear Biofuture is an industrial biotech company developing a precision fermentation platform to produce sustainable alternatives to palm oil. Using engineered yeast strains…
Synthetic biology facility for gene design, engineering and characterisation
The London Biofoundry is a core facility of SynbiCITE, the UK's national Innovation and Knowledge Centre for Engineering Biology, based at Imperial College London's White City…
Synthetic gene promoter platform for biologics and cell and gene therapy
SynGenSys is a synthetic biology company developing proprietary libraries of synthetic gene promoters and signal peptides designed to improve the yield, specificity, and…
Bio-based ingredients and sustainable bioprocess development services
Activatec is an industrial biotechnology company specialising in the development and scale-up of bioprocesses for producing high-value bio-based ingredients from renewable and…
Carbon capture and biomanufacturing using engineered cyanobacteria
CyanoCapture is a company developing a biomanufacturing platform that uses genetically engineered cyanobacteria to sequester carbon dioxide and convert it into high-value products…
AI-designed regulatory DNA sequences to boost biologics manufacturing yields
Genosys Bio is a UK biotechnology company developing AI models that learn the regulatory grammar of DNA to design improved promoter and terminator sequences for biologics…