ValleyDAO is an open, global community collectively financing and democratizing the governance of synthetic biology technologies to protect the future of our planet.
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Synthetic biology leverages biological organisms to sustainably manufacture products such as animal-free meat, nutrients, clothes, fuels, fertilizers and medicine. We believe that access to these technologies is going to be paramount in solving the existential threats of climate change and food security.
ValleyDAO is a global and open community that funds and collectively incubates academic and independent research projects. We help researchers maximize the impact of their work by taking their research results beyond the bench and into the real world.
We have streamlined the application process to make it easier for you to receive the support you need to make a difference.
Microbially produced oils and fats have a wide range of applications, such as the production of biofuels, infant formula, and ethical palm oil. Ledesma-Amaro's project aims to improve the production yield of oils in yeast while simultaneously decreasing expensive downstream processing.
Fluorinated organic molecules are difficult to manufacture sustainably due to requiring harsh chemical conditions. Nikel’s group has developed a process to biomanufacture a diverse set of fluorinated molecules that can be used in the electronics, healthcare, automotive, and wearables industries.
SynbioCAD is a software for designing metabolic routes for bioproduction that can save technicians hours of work. It enables end-to-end pathway design and engineering, from strain and target selection to the generation of scripts driving liquid handlers for plasmid assembly and strain transformations.
