A General Biotechnologies company
Oxford Science Park, UK Photosynthetic Biomanufacturing

Next generation biomanufacturing.

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Breakthrough synthetic biology.
Resilient biomanufacturing.

Platform technology for producing hard-to-synthesise molecules in shortages.

Metrics
$40 bn
Total market size of products synthesised at cost parity or less
200+
GMO strains engineered
3/7
Biological products in the pipeline successfully synthesised from platform
2
Private contracts delivered
$27m
Pre-orders & LOIs
De-risking critical supply chains

Better than Alchemy.

Turning CO2 into complex molecules including enzymes, growth factors, Interferons and peptide drugs. Biology performs a biochemical transformation that is more significant than turning straw into gold.

How it works
01

The 'Rolls-Royce engine' of biology

A patented record-breaking genetically engineered cell. Robust. Scalable. Doubles every 2.2 hours. Does not need sugars or FBS. This is the chassis on which all our production is built.

02

Deciphering 3 million base pairs of DNA code

We turn the chassis into a powerful molecular factory - secreting valuable molecules synthesised from absorbed CO2.

Two years of intense development produced patented cloning methods, CRISPR and a proprietary library of genetic parts and unique methods. CyanoCapture has quietly engineered 200+ strains with unparalleled degrees of freedom.

03

Self-reliant plug-and-play systems

These cells are loaded into low-cost vessels and pumped with CO2 and exposed to outdoor or artificial illumination. Cells self-replicate and self-repair its biomachinery.

04

Unparalleled manufacturing efficiency

$40+ billion worth of high-value compounds can be synthesised at radically low cost by eliminating expensive ingredients.

Our Core Technology

Targeted drug delivery platform.

Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) consisting of polyhedral protein shells approximately 100 nanometers in diameter made in high copies in our cell lines. These can be loaded with drug molecules for therapeutic delivery.

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Proprietary multi-omics datasets to gain unparalleled genetic control of the world's original photosynthetic machine.

Industrial Enzymes Peptides Commodity chemicals Bioplastics Growth factors Cytokines Serum-free media Targeted drug delivery (Protein shell nanocages)

A Swiss Army knife for biomanufacturing. Getting the world ready for the explosion in AI-discovered molecules.

Carboxysome protein shell structure illustration
Working at scale

Latest news.

Chonkus cyanobacterium strain

Could this cell be the answer to climate change?

Scientists Found a New Ally in the Fight to Clean Up CO2 Emissions: 'Chonkus'

 Mourik EGP fuel cell with LGEM photobioreactor

Successful 3400L scale up demonstration

Unprecedented CO2 fixation rates in scale-up tests performing direct CO2 capture from a customer's methanol combustion unit with CyanoCapture strains.

 ACS journal feature graphic

Using CRISPR to engineer the world's fastest growing photosynthetic cell

CyanoCapture mentioned in American Chemical Society journal
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