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Gen9 has produced the first ‘fab’ for synthetic biology – the BioFab platform, which was chosen by “The Scientist” as the innovation of 2012. Traditionally, synthesized genes were made one-at-a-time, resulting in a very high cost, and low capacity. With Synthetic Biology used now in pharmaceutical, biofuel, agricultural and chemical production, a high throughput, inexpensive alternative is needed.

The Gen9 BioFab was conceived, designed and implemented to fill the gene synthesis void. As researchers’ understanding of gene sequence data increases, their ability to design and improve genes, pathways and organisms using synthetic biology techniques will also increase. Gen9 will help catalyze this new biological revolution with large amounts of high quality, inexpensive genes.