Synthetic Biology — Golden Land Of Startups?

Synthetic biology is the branch of biotech that is about creating new biological parts from scratch or from templates in nature. It is often about genes or proteins that can be used in research but increasingly in commercial spaces like agriculture, industry, medicine and even computing.  At Tau Ventures we are investors in digital health (besides enterprise and to a much smaller degree automation) but increasingly finding that synthetic biology is paving the way for biotech overall to be more software driven. It makes sense given that creating or repurposing new biological agents requires a high degree of modeling in…...