Tag: Synthetic Biology
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One rabbit-gut bacterium, 130 US patents, and a product ladder that climbs from steel-mill smoke to jet fuel, PET plastic, and Gucci perfume. The company is LanzaTech, its cash is nearly gone, and its patent machine just hit record output.
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Whey and egg white fell years ago. Casein, the self-assembling micelle that makes cheese stretch and melt, is the hard one, and three US startups now hold 19 granted patents on building it without a cow.
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Of 28 US patents since 2018 on engineered nitrogen-fixing crop microbes, Pivot Bio holds eight, more than anyone. The trick: deleting the gene that tells the bug to stop.
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Every working system Kurzweil cited in 2005 as evidence the Singularity was underway has since been productized and then replaced by a completely different mechanism.