Twist Bioscience

🎉 Huge congratulations to David R. Liu for receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences!! His work on the development of base editing and prime editing has been pivotal in advancing synthetic biology, biotechnology, and cancer research. Read selected works from David R. Liu here: “Enhanced prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes” supported by Twist DNA: https://lnkd.in/gytJ-qgw “Directed evolution of engineered virus-like particles with improved production and transduction efficiencies” powered by Twist Bioscience Oligo Pools: https://lnkd.in/gSrzEiz7 “Efficient C•G-to-G•C base editors developed using CRISPRi screens, target-library analysis, and machine learning.” https://lnkd.in/gAK7GqBY

What if microplastic-shedding materials were replaced with leather or silk grown from mycelium or yeast? What if sustainable fuels could be brewed with microbes feasting on plant or industrial waste? A new report from BIO breaks down the economic contribution of bioproducts like these, including animal, biologicals, and plant biotech, identifying factors that help or hinder growth. 🌟 As much as 60% of the physical inputs to the global economy, including many household items, could potentially be produced or substituted using biology! 🌟 Biotechnology Innovation Organization, #bioeconomy Swipe through the report below👇

Congratulations to our CEO and co-founder Emily Leproust for being named one of the Top 100 Biotech Leaders In The World! 🎉 This recognition reflects Emily’s visionary leadership and is awarded based on company performance, scientific breakthroughs, industry influence, and potential for future growth. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gj8ZQn3c Twist Bioscience, #DNA

Cheers! SSF Twisters took a moment recently to enjoy some well earned time together at happy hour! 🍻 Twist Bioscience, #DNA

Please try to enjoy each fact equally, and not show preference for any over the others... Your outie discovers how efforts to uncover the genome's methylation patterns advance cancer detection: https://lnkd.in/gugw_6ZN Your outie learns about how scientists compared protein engineering with a synthetic library versus error-prone PCR to achieve better variant representation and simpler validation: https://lnkd.in/gejsVdmQ Your outie reads about how scientists employ an RNA exome panel for a targeted RNA-sequencing approach: https://lnkd.in/g6E8B6nZ Twist Bioscience, #DNA, #genes, #Severance

🎉 We are thrilled to be recognized as one of “Americas' Fastest Growing Companies 2025” by the Financial Times and Statista Strategy! This recognition reflects our team’s hard work, innovation, and dedication to pushing boundaries in service of our customers. Thank you for the honor! 🧬 Twist Bioscience, #DNA

We are saving everyone an eye roll 🙄 this morning by foregoing a bad April Fool’s Day joke, and instead sharing about a sweet volunteer event with our PDX Twisters! Wilsonville Twisters volunteered for the Children’s Book Bank at SMART Reading, in Northeast Portland 📚 As volunteers, we inspected the books to make sure they were not too damaged to be given back to children. (The books that are too far gone get recycled, sometimes by artists who repurpose them for things like collage!). Then we used a variety of art supplies to restore the books that were in better condition by removing stickers and marks, covering up old inscriptions, and touching up minor wear and tear. Finally we used a gentle cleaner to sanitize the books before sorting them into their appropriate age categories. 😃 We had a very fun and fulfilling time giving back to our community with SMART. We are happy to have restored many books that afternoon! Special thanks to: Cameron Backus, Manuel Binford, Reanne Alysone Ramos, Ashley Susee, Claire Paulsen, and Samantha Brotherton.

🎉 We are excited to announce our collaboration with CURIO Genomics to accelerate the adoption of NGS workflows in agricultural genomics by offering Twist’s FlexPrep™ Ultra-High Throughput (UHT) Library Preparation Kit with Curio’s bioinformatics software and data platform! “Our FlexPrep UHT Library Prep Kit eliminates many of the traditional barriers that have slowed NGS adoption in agrigenomics – making high throughput genotyping faster, easier, and more accessible than ever,” said Emily Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. “By collaborating with Curio, we can now pair our FlexPrep UHT Kit with a robust easy-to-use, cost-effective software platform to conduct high-volume data analysis across array and NGS data from any animal or plant species. From library prep to data analytics, we believe this streamlined offering will facilitate a shift from microarray to next-generation sequencing.” Find the kit here: https://lnkd.in/gFd7PSMy Learn more about the collaboration: https://lnkd.in/gWTr_aNV Twist Bioscience, #DNA #agrigenomics

Join Twist Bioscience for upcoming webinar! 🖥️ Advanced Targeted Sequencing: Unraveling the Complexity of Plant Genetic Diversity 🗓️ Date: April 15th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 4:00 PM CEST | 3:00 PM BST | 8:00 AM PDT Hear from Caroline Callot and william marande at INRAE-CNRGV about how targeted sequencing is revolutionizing plant genomic research. What You Will Learn: •The advantages of targeted enrichment methods in plant genome analysis. •Real-world applications in characterizing pathogen resistance and large genomic regions. •The use of Long Read sequencing combined with Twist Target Enrichment. •How CNRGV is advancing plant research. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge in plant genomics! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gXFz8KJt

March was a busy month at Twist, and we have loads of great information to share with you today! Browse our March newsletter for the latest in NGS, DNA data storage, biopharma and more! Plus, see where in the world 🌎 we’ll be this April in our events section. Twist Bioscience, #DNA