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Australian Biotech Pioneer Is Banking on the Future
3, Sep 2025

Australian Biotech Pioneer Is Banking on the Future

Australian innovator MicroBioGen has significantly expanded its Sydney research facilities with a multi-million-dollar investment that signals growing confidence in the domestic synthetic biology sector. The company now occupies the entire...

$5.5m for lactoferrin production
28, Aug 2025

$5.5m for lactoferrin production

QUT researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology are helping to change the face of functional food, sports nutrition and skin care through a landmark project to...

Bridging the Gap: Why Industry and Academia Need Each Other
19, Aug 2025

Bridging the Gap: Why Industry and Academia Need Each Other

When science meets business, innovation flourishes. For Sinead Robinson-Cast, a research scientist at Australian biotech company Microbiogen, collaboration between industry and academia has been nothing short of transformative.  Sinead has...

Science Week Bursts Into Life with Synthetic Biology
18, Aug 2025

Science Week Bursts Into Life with Synthetic Biology

The Centre delivered a varied, entertaining and hugely successful National Science Week program, with events lighting up Sydney and Brisbane. At the Australian Museum’s Sydney Science Trail Expo, a volunteer...

Ian Paulsen Named Finalist for 2025 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science
7, Aug 2025

Ian Paulsen Named Finalist for 2025 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science

Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, has once again been named a finalist for the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Leadership in...

QUT researchers secure $1.2m AEA grant to turn sugarcane waste into high-value fragrances
11, Jul 2025

QUT researchers secure $1.2m AEA grant to turn sugarcane waste into high-value fragrances

Centre researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) node have successfully secured a prestigious $1.2 million Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) Innovate Grant to bring their research closer to market....

Scientists To Turn Blue-Green Algae into Green Gold
10, Jul 2025

Scientists To Turn Blue-Green Algae into Green Gold

In a bold step toward a cleaner, more sustainable future, scientists at the University of Newcastle are transforming humble blue-green algae into a powerful engine for green industry using synthetic...

Centre startup Levur raises $1.2m to brew a more sustainable future
25, Jun 2025

Centre startup Levur raises $1.2m to brew a more sustainable future

Levur, a startup launched from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology and based at Macquarie University, has raised $1.2m in pre-seed funding to take its synthetic biology platform...

Cannabis extract shows promise as treatment for fungal infections
19, Jun 2025

Cannabis extract shows promise as treatment for fungal infections

Reproduced courtesy the Lighthouse. Story by Bianca Nogrady Macquarie researchers have found compounds derived from the cannabis plant can effectively combat fungal infections including athlete's foot and the deadly Cryptococcosis,...

$13 million grant to develop first synthetic plant chromosome
19, Jun 2025

$13 million grant to develop first synthetic plant chromosome

Courtesy of Macquarie University’s Lighthouse. Story by Fran Molloy  The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has awarded a major international grant to Macquarie University researchers to develop synthetic...

Report outlines blueprint to grow Australia’s bioeconomy
17, Jun 2025

Report outlines blueprint to grow Australia’s bioeconomy

A report published today into Australia’s bioeconomy has called for a national strategy and outlined the five key steps needed to grow a sustainable economic future. The report, published by Madeline Smith, Dr...

Families Discover the Science Behind Sugar Waste at Burdekin Festival
10, Jun 2025

Families Discover the Science Behind Sugar Waste at Burdekin Festival

Families of sugar cane growers got a taste of science in action at the Sweet Days, Hot Nights Festival in Burdekin, Queensland, where researchers brought synthetic biology to life with...