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• [New] Synthekine, fresh off $108 million in funding, will lead early research, initial protein engineering, biology work and preclinical efforts. FierceBiotech
• [New] Divorcing flavour, nutrition, and form: new biology technologies will allow for the design of food products untied from natural production systems, such as cellular agriculture, molecular engineering, and 3D printing. Strutt & Parker - Rural Hub
• While there are many impactful tech topics such as the Internet of Things, 5G, Space, Genomics, Synthetic Biology, Automation, Augmented Reality, and others, there are four tech areas to keep a keen watch on in 2023 as they have promising and near-term capabilities to transform lives. Forbes
• At team of researchers from Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Clinical Microbiology, University of Southern Denmark, have discovered a weakness in P. Aeruginosa with the potential to become the target for a new way to attack it. ScienceDaily
• The Saudi royal family has launched a non-profit organisation called the Hevolution Foundation, which plans to invest $1 billion annually in funding anti-ageing research and the biology of extending human lifespan. Middle East Monitor

Last updated: 20 October 2025