Congrats to Gen9 — their BioFab was awarded The Scientist’s Top 10 Innovations of 2012.
“By 2013, Gen9 hopes to singlehandedly surpass the world’s current capacity to manufacture synthetic DNA.”
“Making synthetic genes to program microorganisms used to require a lot of time, in addition to expensive robots and other equipment, but Gen9 has developed BioFab, a new system that can quickly and cheaply produce tens of thousands of double-stranded DNA fragments of between 500 and 1,000 base pairs in length.”
“The ability to synthesize large numbers of genes in parallel at low cost could transform the field of computational protein design,” says molecular engineer David Baker of the University of Washington
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/33341/title/Top-10-Innovations-2012/
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